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. The expression level of this gene is associated with recurrence of primary hepatocellular carcinoma. Six alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been reported, but the transcript sequences of some variants are not determined.[provided by RefSeq, Jun 2010]
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Tissue specific distribution
Expression restricted in 1 cancer type(s)
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Tissue specific distribution
Gscore (Amp):
0.13
Gscore (Del):
0.00
Recurrently amplified in 1 cancer type(s)
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Tissue specific distribution
Mscore:
0.00
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Tissue specific
Total fusion occurrence:
4
Fusions detected in 4 cancer type(s)
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Tissue specific
Functional class:
Not specified
JensenLab PubMed score:
25.33 (Percentile rank: 51.32%)
PubTator score:
18.05 (Percentile rank: 50.27%)
Target development/druggability level:
TbioThese targets do not have known drug or small molecule activities that satisfy the activity thresholds detailed below AND satisfy one or more of the following criteria: 1) target is above the cutoff criteria for Tdark; 2) target is annotated with a Gene Ontology Molecular Function or Biological Process leaf term(s) with an Experimental Evidence code.
Tractability (small molecule):
N/A
Tractability (antibody):
Predicted Tractable - High confidenceTargets located in the plasma membrane; Targets with GO cell component terms plasma membrane or secreted
