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Designing a Western blot for Claudin-16? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the CLDN16 Western Blot Guide2 Citations
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 | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CLDN16 |
| Uniprot: | Q9Y5I7 |
| Entrez: | 10686 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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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