CLDN16

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Claudin-16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLDN16 gene. It belongs to the group of claudins.

Tight junctions represent one mode of cell-to-cell adhesion in epithelial or endothelial cell sheets, forming continuous seals around cells and serving as a physical barrier to prevent solutes and water from passing freely through the paracellular space. These junctions are composed of sets of continuous networking strands in the outwardly facing cytoplasmic leaflet, with complementary grooves in the inwardly facing extracytoplasmic leaflet. The protein encoded by this gene, a member of the claudin family, is an integral membrane protein and a component of tight junction strands. It is found primarily in the kidneys, specifically in the thick ascending limb of Henle, where it acts as either an intercellular pore or ion concentration sensor to regulate the paracellular resorption of magnesium ions. Defects in this gene are a cause of primary hypomagnesemia, which is characterized by massive renal magnesium wasting with hypomagnesemia and hypercalciuria, resulting in nephrocalcinosis and renal failure.

Model organisms

Cldn16 knockout mouse phenotype

Characteristic	Phenotype
Homozygote viability	Normal
Fertility	Normal
General Observations	Abnormal
Body weight	Normal
Anxiety	Normal
Neurological assessment	Normal
Grip strength	Normal
Hot plate	Normal
Dysmorphology	Normal
Indirect calorimetry	Normal
Glucose tolerance test	Normal
Auditory brainstem response	Normal
DEXA	Normal
Radiography	Normal
Body temperature	Normal
Eye morphology	Normal
Clinical chemistry	Normal
Haematology	Normal
Peripheral blood lymphocytes	Normal
Micronucleus test	Normal
Heart weight	Normal
Brain histopathology	Normal
Eye Histopathology	Normal
Salmonella infection	Normal
Citrobacter infection	Normal
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Model organisms have been used in the study of CLDN16 function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Cldn16^{tm1a(KOMP)Wtsi} was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program — a high-throughput mutagenesis project to generate and distribute animal models of disease to interested scientists.

Male and female animals underwent a standardized phenotypic screen to determine the effects of deletion. Twenty five tests were carried out on homozygous mutant animals and one significant abnormality was observed: the mice displayed urolithiasis.

External links

• Human CLDN16 genome location and CLDN16 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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.
• Manz F, Schärer K, Janka P, Lombeck J (1978). "Renal magnesium wasting, incomplete tubular acidosis, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis in siblings". Eur. J. Pediatr. 128 (2): 67–79. doi:10.1007/BF00496992. PMID 668721.
• Weber S, Hoffmann K, Jeck N, et al. (2000). "Familial hypomagnesaemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis maps to chromosome 3q27 and is associated with mutations in the PCLN-1 gene". Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 8 (6): 414–22. doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200475. PMID 10878661.
• Weber S, Schneider L, Peters M, et al. (2001). "Novel paracellin-1 mutations in 25 families with familial hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis". J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 12 (9): 1872–81. PMID 11518780.
• 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.
• Müller D, Kausalya PJ, Claverie-Martin F, et al. (2004). "A Novel Claudin 16 Mutation Associated with Childhood Hypercalciuria Abolishes Binding to ZO-1 and Results in Lysosomal Mistargeting". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 73 (6): 1293–301. doi:10.1086/380418. PMC 1180395. PMID 14628289.
• 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. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Hou J, Paul DL, Goodenough DA (2005). "Paracellin-1 and the modulation of ion selectivity of tight junctions". J. Cell Sci. 118 (Pt 21): 5109–18. doi:10.1242/jcs.02631. PMID 16234325.
• Kausalya PJ, Amasheh S, Günzel D, et al. (2006). "Disease-associated mutations affect intracellular traffic and paracellular Mg2+ transport function of Claudin-16". J. Clin. Invest. 116 (4): 878–91. doi:10.1172/JCI26323. PMC 1395478. PMID 16528408.
• Türkmen M, Kasap B, Soylu A, et al. (2007). "Paracellin-1 gene mutation with multiple congenital abnormalities". Pediatr. Nephrol. 21 (11): 1776–8. doi:10.1007/s00467-006-0247-7. PMID 16924549.
• 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.