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Human Gene ARHGEF12 (ENST00000397843.7) from GENCODE V50
  Description: Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 12, transcript variant 1 (from RefSeq NM_015313.3)
Gencode Transcript: ENST00000397843.7
Gencode Gene: ENSG00000196914.11
Transcript (Including UTRs)
   Position: hg38 chr11:120,336,413-120,489,937 Size: 153,525 Total Exon Count: 41 Strand: +
Coding Region
   Position: hg38 chr11:120,337,244-120,485,077 Size: 147,834 Coding Exon Count: 41 

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Data last updated at UCSC: 2026-07-12 09:30:09

-  Comments and Description Text from UniProtKB
  ID: ARHGC_HUMAN
DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 12; AltName: Full=Leukemia-associated RhoGEF;
FUNCTION: May play a role in the regulation of RhoA GTPase by guanine nucleotide-binding alpha-12 (GNA12) and alpha-13 (GNA13). Acts as guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for RhoA GTPase and may act as GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for GNA12 and GNA13.
SUBUNIT: Interacts with GNA12 and GNA13, probably through the RGS- like domain. Interacts with RHOA, PLXNB1 and PLXNB2. Interacts through its PDZ domain with IGF1R beta subunit. Interacts with GCSAM.
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm (Probable). Membrane (Probable). Note=Translocated to the membrane upon stimulation (Probable).
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Ubiquitously expressed. Isoform 2 is found in jejunum and testis.
PTM: Phosphorylated upon DNA damage, probably by ATM or ATR.
DISEASE: Note=A chromosomal aberration involving ARHGEF12 may be a cause of acute leukemia. Translocation t(11;11)(q23;23) with MLL.
SIMILARITY: Contains 1 DH (DBL-homology) domain.
SIMILARITY: Contains 1 PDZ (DHR) domain.
SIMILARITY: Contains 1 PH domain.
SIMILARITY: Contains 1 RGSL (RGS-like) domain.
SEQUENCE CAUTION: Sequence=AAH63117.1; Type=Miscellaneous discrepancy; Note=Contaminating sequence. Potential poly-A sequence;
WEB RESOURCE: Name=Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology; URL="http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/Genes/LARGID243.html";

-  Primer design for this transcript
 

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-  MalaCards Disease Associations
  MalaCards Gene Search: ARHGEF12
Diseases sorted by gene-association score: leukemia, acute myeloid* (19), shwachman-diamond syndrome (13), acalculous cholecystitis (6), giant axonal neuropathy (5)
* = Manually curated disease association

-  Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)
  The following chemicals interact with this gene           more ... click here to view the complete list

-  RNA-Seq Expression Data from GTEx (53 Tissues, 570 Donors)
  Highest median expression: 30.58 RPKM in Brain - Cerebellar Hemisphere
Total median expression: 869.30 RPKM



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+  Microarray Expression Data
 
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GNF Expression Atlas 2 Data from U133A and GNF1H Chips

      
      
      
     
    
     
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-  mRNA Secondary Structure of 3' and 5' UTRs
 
RegionFold EnergyBasesEnergy/Base
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5' UTR -393.10831-0.473 Picture PostScript Text
3' UTR -1313.904860-0.270 Picture PostScript Text

The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.

-  Protein Domain and Structure Information
  InterPro Domains: Graphical view of domain structure
IPR000219 - DH-domain
IPR001331 - GDS_CDC24_CS
IPR001478 - PDZ
IPR011993 - PH_like_dom
IPR001849 - Pleckstrin_homology
IPR015212 - Regulat_G_prot_signal-like
IPR016137 - Regulat_G_prot_signal_superfam
IPR015721 - RhoGEF-like

Pfam Domains:
PF00595 - PDZ domain (Also known as DHR or GLGF)
PF09128 - Regulator of G protein signalling-like domain
PF00621 - RhoGEF domain

Protein Data Bank (PDB) 3-D Structure
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ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q9NZN5
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-  Orthologous Genes in Other Species
  Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
MouseRatZebrafishD. melanogasterC. elegansS. cerevisiae
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-  Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations with Structured Vocabulary
  Molecular Function:
GO:0001664 G-protein coupled receptor binding
GO:0005085 guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity
GO:0005089 Rho guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity
GO:0005096 GTPase activator activity
GO:0005515 protein binding

Biological Process:
GO:0007186 G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway
GO:0007266 Rho protein signal transduction
GO:0035023 regulation of Rho protein signal transduction
GO:0035556 intracellular signal transduction
GO:0043065 positive regulation of apoptotic process
GO:0043547 positive regulation of GTPase activity
GO:0051056 regulation of small GTPase mediated signal transduction

Cellular Component:
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0005829 cytosol
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0070062 extracellular exosome


-  Descriptions from all associated GenBank mRNAs
  BX648515 - Homo sapiens mRNA; cDNA DKFZp686O2372 (from clone DKFZp686O2372).
AK304316 - Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ60405 partial cds, highly similar to Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 12.
LF213950 - JP 2014500723-A/21453: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
MA449527 - JP 2018138019-A/21453: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
LF384540 - JP 2014500723-A/192043: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
LP895814 - Sequence 678 from Patent EP3253886.
MA620117 - JP 2018138019-A/192043: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
BC152900 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone IMAGE:100016177, MGC:184137 Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) 12 (ARHGEF12) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
AF180681 - Homo sapiens guanine nucleotide exchange factor (LARG) mRNA, complete cds.
AB527392 - Synthetic construct DNA, clone: pF1KA0382, Homo sapiens ARHGEF12 gene for Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) 12, without stop codon, in Flexi system.
BX647785 - Homo sapiens mRNA; cDNA DKFZp686O2486 (from clone DKFZp686O2486).
AK294803 - Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ51627 complete cds, highly similar to Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 12.
AB002380 - Homo sapiens KIAA0382 mRNA for KIAA0382 protein.
BC063117 - Homo sapiens Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) 12, mRNA (cDNA clone IMAGE:30353240), partial cds.
AL137456 - Homo sapiens mRNA; cDNA DKFZp564O0772 (from clone DKFZp564O0772).
AF119898 - Homo sapiens PRO2792 mRNA, complete cds.
JD112710 - Sequence 93734 from Patent EP1572962.
JD459342 - Sequence 440366 from Patent EP1572962.
JD144858 - Sequence 125882 from Patent EP1572962.
JD064143 - Sequence 45167 from Patent EP1572962.
JD046843 - Sequence 27867 from Patent EP1572962.
JD344491 - Sequence 325515 from Patent EP1572962.
JD498905 - Sequence 479929 from Patent EP1572962.
JD065597 - Sequence 46621 from Patent EP1572962.
JD178305 - Sequence 159329 from Patent EP1572962.
JD467950 - Sequence 448974 from Patent EP1572962.
JD338290 - Sequence 319314 from Patent EP1572962.
JD487017 - Sequence 468041 from Patent EP1572962.
JD277565 - Sequence 258589 from Patent EP1572962.
JD355919 - Sequence 336943 from Patent EP1572962.
JD344966 - Sequence 325990 from Patent EP1572962.
JD495059 - Sequence 476083 from Patent EP1572962.
JD132960 - Sequence 113984 from Patent EP1572962.
JD060350 - Sequence 41374 from Patent EP1572962.
JD224078 - Sequence 205102 from Patent EP1572962.
JD509995 - Sequence 491019 from Patent EP1572962.
JD303714 - Sequence 284738 from Patent EP1572962.
JD363525 - Sequence 344549 from Patent EP1572962.
BC031784 - Homo sapiens Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) 12, mRNA (cDNA clone IMAGE:4538083), with apparent retained intron.
JD137759 - Sequence 118783 from Patent EP1572962.
JD126972 - Sequence 107996 from Patent EP1572962.
JD554431 - Sequence 535455 from Patent EP1572962.
JD080805 - Sequence 61829 from Patent EP1572962.
JD347864 - Sequence 328888 from Patent EP1572962.
JD224069 - Sequence 205093 from Patent EP1572962.
JD454426 - Sequence 435450 from Patent EP1572962.
JD110467 - Sequence 91491 from Patent EP1572962.
JD203362 - Sequence 184386 from Patent EP1572962.
JD172836 - Sequence 153860 from Patent EP1572962.
JD042302 - Sequence 23326 from Patent EP1572962.
JD553820 - Sequence 534844 from Patent EP1572962.
JD506892 - Sequence 487916 from Patent EP1572962.
JD557227 - Sequence 538251 from Patent EP1572962.
JD492932 - Sequence 473956 from Patent EP1572962.
JD492779 - Sequence 473803 from Patent EP1572962.
JD241417 - Sequence 222441 from Patent EP1572962.
JD226045 - Sequence 207069 from Patent EP1572962.
JD082396 - Sequence 63420 from Patent EP1572962.
JD288192 - Sequence 269216 from Patent EP1572962.
JD515862 - Sequence 496886 from Patent EP1572962.
JD080973 - Sequence 61997 from Patent EP1572962.
JD083645 - Sequence 64669 from Patent EP1572962.
JD370954 - Sequence 351978 from Patent EP1572962.
JD226280 - Sequence 207304 from Patent EP1572962.
JD304488 - Sequence 285512 from Patent EP1572962.
JD431906 - Sequence 412930 from Patent EP1572962.

-  Biochemical and Signaling Pathways
  KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
hsa04270 - Vascular smooth muscle contraction
hsa04360 - Axon guidance
hsa04810 - Regulation of actin cytoskeleton

Reactome (by CSHL, EBI, and GO)

Protein Q9NZN5 (Reactome details) participates in the following event(s):

R-HSA-398184 LARG activation by G alpha 12/13
R-HSA-398185 LARG binds plexin B1
R-HSA-416594 LARG and PDZ-RhoGEF binds to Plexin-B1
R-HSA-194913 GEFs activate Rho GTPase:GDP
R-HSA-419166 GEFs activate RhoA,B,C
R-HSA-205039 p75NTR indirectly activates RAC and Cdc42 via a guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor
R-HSA-416588 Activation of Rho by LARG and PDZ-RhoGEF
R-HSA-416482 G alpha (12/13) signalling events
R-HSA-416572 Sema4D induced cell migration and growth-cone collapse
R-HSA-388396 GPCR downstream signalling
R-HSA-194840 Rho GTPase cycle
R-HSA-193648 NRAGE signals death through JNK
R-HSA-400685 Sema4D in semaphorin signaling
R-HSA-372790 Signaling by GPCR
R-HSA-194315 Signaling by Rho GTPases
R-HSA-204998 Cell death signalling via NRAGE, NRIF and NADE
R-HSA-373755 Semaphorin interactions
R-HSA-162582 Signal Transduction
R-HSA-193704 p75 NTR receptor-mediated signalling
R-HSA-422475 Axon guidance
R-HSA-73887 Death Receptor Signalling
R-HSA-1266738 Developmental Biology

-  Other Names for This Gene
  Alternate Gene Symbols: ARHGC_HUMAN, ENST00000397843.1, ENST00000397843.2, ENST00000397843.3, ENST00000397843.4, ENST00000397843.5, ENST00000397843.6, KIAA0382, LARG, NM_015313, O15086, Q6P526, Q9NZN5, uc001pxl.1, uc001pxl.2, uc001pxl.3, uc001pxl.4
UCSC ID: ENST00000397843.7
RefSeq Accession: NM_015313.3
Protein: Q9NZN5 (aka ARHGC_HUMAN or ARHC_HUMAN)
CCDS: CCDS41727.1, CCDS55794.1

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