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Facts about Claudin-8.
Claudins play a major role in tight junction-specific obliteration of the intercellular space, through calcium-independent cell-adhesion activity. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CLDN8 |
| Uniprot: | P56748 |
| Entrez: | 9073 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| claudin family |

claudin 8; Claudin8; Claudin-8; CLDN8; human CLDN8 gene for claudin-810claudin-8
Mass (kDA):
24.845 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 21q22.11 |
| Sequence: | 21; NC_000021.9 (30214006..30216097, complement) |
Expressed in the epididymis, mainly in the caput segment.
Cell junction, tight junction. Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Localizes to tight junctions in all 3 segments of the epididymis, in the caput found in the lateral margins of principal cells, and in the corpus at the interface between basal and principal cells.





PMID: 17287494 by Dube E., et al. Gene expression profiling and its relevance to the blood-epididymal barrier in the human epididymis.
PMID: 22042635 by Uhlen M., et al. Antibody-based protein profiling of the human chromosome 21.