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Bos taurus Protein: CLDN18
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-690734.2
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol CLDN18
Protein Name Claudin-18
Synonyms
Species Bos taurus
Ensembl Protein ENSBTAP00000019421
InnateDB Gene IDBG-638652 (CLDN18)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Plays a major role in tight junction-specific obliteration of the intercellular space, through calcium- independent cell-adhesion activity. {ECO:0000250}.
Subcellular Localization Cell junction, tight junction {ECO:0000250}. Cell membrane {ECO:0000250}; Multi-pass membrane protein {ECO:0000250}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 2 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Predicted by orthology
Total 2 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005198 structural molecule activity
Biological Process
Cellular Component
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0005923 tight junction
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
GO:0030054 cell junction
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR003928 Claudin-18
IPR004031 PMP-22/EMP/MP20/Claudin superfamily
IPR006187 Claudin
PFAM PF00822
PF13903
PRINTS PR01448
PR01077
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q0VCN0
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 511460
UniGene Bt.22727
RefSeq NP_001068984
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL BC120090
GenPept AAI20091

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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