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Facts about Claudin-16.
Required for a selective paracellular conductance. May form, alone or in partnership with other components, an intercellular pore permitting paracellular passage of calcium and magnesium ions down their electrochemical gradients.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | CLDN16 |
Uniprot: | Q9Y5I7 |
Entrez: | 10686 |
Belongs to: |
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claudin family |
claudin 16; Claudin16; Claudin-16; CLDN16; HOMG3; HOMG3paracellin-1; Paracellin-1; PCLN1; PCLN-1; PCLN1hypomagnesemia 3, with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis
Mass (kDA):
33.836 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 3q28 |
Sequence: | 3; NC_000003.12 (190290361..190412138) |
Kidney-specific, including the thick ascending limb of Henle (TAL).
Cell junction, tight junction. Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
PMID: 10390358 by Simon D.B., et al. Paracellin-1, a renal tight junction protein required for paracellular Mg2+ resorption.
PMID: 10878661 by Weber S., et al. Familial hypomagnesaemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis maps to chromosome 3q27 and is associated with mutations in the PCLN-1 gene.
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