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Homo sapiens Protein: CLDN6
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-236483.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol CLDN6
Protein Name claudin 6
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000380131
InnateDB Gene IDBG-11315 (CLDN6)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Plays a major role in tight junction-specific obliteration of the intercellular space (By similarity). May act as a coreceptor for HCV entry into hepatic cells. {ECO:0000250, ECO:0000269PubMed:17804490}.
Subcellular Localization Cell junction, tight junction {ECO:0000250}. Cell membrane {ECO:0000250}; Multi-pass membrane protein {ECO:0000250}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity Expressed in the liver, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and hepatocarcinoma cell lines. {ECO:0000269PubMed:17804490}.
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 1 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
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:0005515 protein binding
GO:0042802 identical protein binding
Biological Process
GO:0016338 calcium-independent cell-cell adhesion
GO:0045216 cell-cell junction organization
Cellular Component
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0005923 tight junction
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR003925 Claudin-6
IPR004031 PMP-22/EMP/MP20/Claudin superfamily
IPR006187 Claudin
PFAM PF00822
PF13903
PRINTS PR01445
PR01077
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P56747
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-P56747
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 9074
UniGene Hs.690156
RefSeq
HUGO HGNC:2048
OMIM 615798
CCDS CCDS10488
HPRD 13070
IMGT
EMBL AF125306 AJ249735 AK075329 AY358480 BC008934 BT007399 CH471112
GenPept AAH08934 AAK02013 AAP36063 AAQ88844 BAG52111 CAB56533 EAW85431 EAW85432

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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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