CLDN6

Tight junctions represent one mode of cell-to-cell adhesion in epithelial or endothelial cell sheets, forming continuous seals around cells and serving as a physical barrier to prevent solutes and water from passing freely through the paracellular space. These junctions are comprised of sets of continuous networking strands in the outwardly facing cytoplasmic leaflet, with complementary grooves in the inwardly facing extracytoplasmic leaflet. This gene encodes a component of tight junction strands, which is a member of the claudin family. The protein is an integral membrane protein and is one of the entry cofactors for hepatitis C virus. The gene methylation may be involved in esophageal tumorigenesis. This gene is adjacent to another family member CLDN9 on chromosome 16. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2010]

Description

Claudin 6

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (brain, pancreas)

Predicted location

Intracellular, Membrane

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Predicted membrane proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

16 (3014712 - 3020071)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000184697  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Cldn6: ENSMUSG00000023906

UniProt

P56747

neXtProt

NX_P56747

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure