Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable structural molecule activity. Predicted to be involved in bicellular tight junction assembly and cell adhesion. Predicted to act upstream of or within monoatomic ion transport. Located in lateral plasma membrane. Is expressed in intestine epithelium; lung; metanephros; pancreas; and stomach. Orthologous to human CLDN15 (claudin 15).