Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable structural molecule activity. Predicted to be involved in bicellular tight junction assembly; cell adhesion; and regulation of monoatomic ion transport. Predicted to act upstream of or within monoatomic ion transport. Located in bicellular tight junction; cytoplasm; and plasma membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; lung; metanephros; olfactory epithelium; and submandibular gland primordium. Orthologous to human CLDN10 (claudin 10).