CLDN8

Claudin 8
Identifiers
Symbol	CLDN8
External IDs	OMIM: 611231 MGI: 1859286 HomoloGene: 8117 GeneCards: CLDN8 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • structural molecule activity • protein binding • identical protein binding Cellular component • endoplasmic reticulum • plasma membrane • bicellular tight junction • integral component of membrane • basolateral plasma membrane Biological process • calcium-independent cell-cell adhesion via plasma membrane cell-adhesion molecules Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	9073	54420
Ensembl	ENSG00000156284	ENSMUSG00000050520
UniProt	P56748	Q9Z260
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_012132	NM_018778
RefSeq (protein)	NP_955360	NP_061248
Location (UCSC)	Chr 21: 30.21 – 30.22 Mb	Chr 16: 88.56 – 88.56 Mb
PubMed search

Claudin-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLDN8 gene.^[1][2] It belongs to the group of claudins.

References

1. Morita K, Furuse M, Fujimoto K, Tsukita S (Mar 1999). "Claudin multigene family encoding four-transmembrane domain protein components of tight junction strands". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96 (2): 511–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.2.511. PMC 15167. PMID 9892664.
2. "Entrez Gene: CLDN8 claudin 8".

Further reading

• Kniesel U, Wolburg H (2000). "Tight junctions of the blood–brain barrier". Cell. Mol. Neurobiol. 20 (1): 57–76. doi:10.1023/A:1006995910836. PMID 10690502.
• Heiskala M, Peterson PA, Yang Y (2001). "The roles of claudin superfamily proteins in paracellular transport". Traffic 2 (2): 93–8. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0854.2001.020203.x. PMID 11247307.
• Tsukita S, Furuse M, Itoh M (2001). "Multifunctional strands in tight junctions". Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2 (4): 285–93. doi:10.1038/35067088. PMID 11283726.
• Tsukita S, Furuse M (2003). "Claudin-based barrier in simple and stratified cellular sheets". Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 14 (5): 531–6. doi:10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00362-9. PMID 12231346.
• González-Mariscal L, Betanzos A, Nava P, Jaramillo BE (2003). "Tight junction proteins". Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 81 (1): 1–44. doi:10.1016/S0079-6107(02)00037-8. PMID 12475568.
• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K; et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
• Itoh M, Furuse M, Morita K; et al. (2000). "Direct Binding of Three Tight Junction-Associated Maguks, Zo-1, Zo-2, and Zo-3, with the Cooh Termini of Claudins". J. Cell Biol. 147 (6): 1351–63. doi:10.1083/jcb.147.6.1351. PMC 2168087. PMID 10601346.
• Hattori M, Fujiyama A, Taylor TD; et al. (2000). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21". Nature 405 (6784): 311–9. doi:10.1038/35012518. PMID 10830953.
• Brandner JM, Kief S, Grund C; et al. (2003). "Organization and formation of the tight junction system in human epidermis and cultured keratinocytes". Eur. J. Cell Biol. 81 (5): 253–63. doi:10.1078/0171-9335-00244. PMID 12067061.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Katoh M, Katoh M (2004). "CLDN23 gene, frequently down-regulated in intestinal-type gastric cancer, is a novel member of CLAUDIN gene family". Int. J. Mol. Med. 11 (6): 683–9. doi:10.3892/ijmm.11.6.683. PMID 12736707.
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E; et al. (2003). "The Secreted Protein Discovery Initiative (SPDI), a Large-Scale Effort to Identify Novel Human Secreted and Transmembrane Proteins: A Bioinformatics Assessment". Genome Res. 13 (10): 2265–70. doi:10.1101/gr.1293003. PMC 403697. PMID 12975309.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T; et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Liu F, Koval M, Ranganathan S, Fanayan S, Hancock WS, Lundberg EK, Beavis RC, Lane L, Duek P, McQuade L, Kelleher NL, Baker MS (2015). "A systems proteomics view of the endogenous human claudin protein family". J Proteome Res. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00769. PMID 26680015.