CLDN20

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Claudin 20

Identifiers

External IDs

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• structural molecule activity • identical protein binding
Cellular Component:	• tight junction • membrane • integral to membrane
Biological Process:	• calcium-independent cell-cell adhesion

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

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Refseq

NM_001001346 (mRNA)
NP_001001346 (protein)

XM_888581 (mRNA)
XP_893674 (protein)

Location

Chr 6: 155.63 - 155.64 Mb

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Pubmed search

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Claudin 20, also known as CLDN20, is a human gene.^[1] It belongs to the group of claudins.

[edit] References

^ Entrez Gene: CLDN20 claudin 20.

[edit] Further reading

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Heiskala M, Peterson PA, Yang Y (2001). "The roles of claudin superfamily proteins in paracellular transport.". Traffic 2 (2): 93–8. 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. PMID 12231346.
González-Mariscal L, Betanzos A, Nava P, Jaramillo BE (2003). "Tight junction proteins.". Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 81 (1): 1–44. PMID 12475568.
Berg M, Geisel A, Necheles H (1975). "The influence of carbenoxolone on steroid-induced ulcer and mucus secretion in the rat.". The American journal of digestive diseases 20 (2): 134–7. PMID 1124737.
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. PMID 12477932.
Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6.". Nature 425 (6960): 805–11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404.
Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.