claudin-34 (CLDN34)

Function

• plays a major role in tight junction-specific obliteration of the intercellular space, through Ca+2- independent cell-adhesion activity

can form homo- & heteropolymers with other CLDN

Structure

belongs to the claudin family,

Compartment

• cell junction, tight junction
• cell membrane; multi-pass membrane protein

More general terms

• transmembrane 4 protein

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=100288
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:100288
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/H7C241.html