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Homo sapiens Protein: CLDN2
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-81298.5
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol CLDN2
Protein Name claudin 2
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000336571
InnateDB Gene IDBG-81294 (CLDN2)
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 8 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 1 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 8 [view]
Protein-Protein 6 [view]
Protein-DNA 2 [view]
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Predicted by orthology
Total 1 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005198 structural molecule activity
GO:0042802 identical protein binding
Biological Process
GO:0016338 calcium-independent cell-cell adhesion
Cellular Component
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0005923 tight junction
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
GO:0070062 extracellular vesicular exosome
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR004031 PMP-22/EMP/MP20/Claudin superfamily
IPR005411 Claudin-2
IPR006187 Claudin
PFAM PF00822
PF13903
PRINTS PR01589
PR01077
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P57739
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-P57739
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 9075
UniGene Hs.522746
RefSeq NP_065117
HUGO HGNC:2041
OMIM 300520
CCDS CCDS14524
HPRD 06471
IMGT
EMBL AF177340 AF250558 AK075371 AK075405 AK312515 AL158821 AY358474 BC014424 BC071747 CH471120
GenPept AAF98151 AAG17984 AAH14424 AAH71747 AAQ88838 BAC11575 BAG35416 BAG52130 CAD23055 EAX02730 EAX02731

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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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