Also known as claudin 12
Claudin-12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLDN12 gene. It belongs to the group of claudins.
This gene encodes a member of the claudin family. Claudins are integral membrane proteins and components of tight junction strands. Tight junction strands serve as a physical barrier to prevent solutes and water from passing freely through the paracellular space between epithelial or endothelial cell sheets, and also play critical roles in maintaining cell polarity and signal transductions. This gene is expressed in the inner ear and bladder epithelium, and it is over-expressed in colorectal carcinomas. This protein and claudin 2 are critical for vitamin D-dependent Ca2+ absorption between enterocytes. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found.[provided by RefSeq, Sep 2011].
Biological process
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Claudin-12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLDN12 gene. It belongs to the group of claudins.
==References==
Molecular function
via MyGene.info
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).