SCARNA23

Summary

SCARNA23 (small Cajal body-specific RNA 23, HGNC:32581) is a small Cajal body RNA gene on chromosome Xp22.11.

Predicted to be involved in RNA processing. Predicted to be located in Cajal body and nucleolus.

Source: NCBI Gene 677773 — RefSeq curated summary.

At a glance

• Gene type: non-coding (scaRNA) — no protein product; not a drug target. Variant/disease associations are omitted (they would be positional, from an overlapping protein-coding gene).

Identifiers

Gene identifiers

Field	Value
HGNC ID	HGNC:32581
Approved symbol	SCARNA23
Name	small Cajal body-specific RNA 23
Location	Xp22.11
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	ACA12
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000251869
Ensembl biotype	scaRNA
Entrez	677773
RNAcentral	URS0000466492 — ncRNA, 130 nt, 2 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 scaRNA

ENST00000516060

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000516060 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00002088337	24744441	24744570

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 74 present calls, max score 98.91.

Top tissues by expression

74 total, by Bgee expression score (0-100, higher = more expressed):

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	98.91	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	93.96	gold quality
adult mammalian kidney	UBERON:0000082	90.31	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	89.16	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	86.46	gold quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	83.97	gold quality
stomach	UBERON:0000945	83.91	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	82.95	gold quality
hindlimb stylopod muscle	UBERON:0004252	81.69	gold quality
heart	UBERON:0000948	78.27	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	78.22	gold quality
olfactory segment of nasal mucosa	UBERON:0005386	76.64	gold quality
calcaneal tendon	UBERON:0003701	74.01	gold quality
right lobe of liver	UBERON:0001114	73.70	gold quality
intestine	UBERON:0000160	73.36	gold quality
left coronary artery	UBERON:0001626	73.14	gold quality
muscle of leg	UBERON:0001383	72.48	gold quality
islet of Langerhans	UBERON:0000006	72.16	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	70.49	gold quality
endometrium	UBERON:0001295	69.61	gold quality
heart left ventricle	UBERON:0002084	69.03	gold quality
colon	UBERON:0001155	68.96	gold quality
myometrium	UBERON:0001296	68.82	gold quality
multicellular organism	UBERON:0000468	67.89	gold quality
tibial nerve	UBERON:0001323	67.87	gold quality
popliteal artery	UBERON:0002250	67.69	gold quality
tibial artery	UBERON:0007610	67.57	gold quality
ascending aorta	UBERON:0001496	66.89	gold quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	66.87	gold quality
descending thoracic aorta	UBERON:0002345	66.82	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

Detected in 1 experiment(s), a significant marker in 0.

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	1.29

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

Cross-species orthologs

0 orthologs

Paralogs (1): SCARNA22 (ENSG00000249784)

Protein

Non-coding RNA — no protein product; not a drug target.

Function

No curated pathway, Gene-Ontology, or interaction data.

Disease & clinical

No curated disease, variant, or cancer-driver associations.

Drugs & pharmacology

No drug or pharmacology data — not an established drug target.