Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable channel activity. Predicted to be involved in bicellular tight junction assembly; cell adhesion; and inorganic anion transport. Predicted to act upstream of or within chloride transport and monoatomic ion transmembrane transport. Located in tight junction. Is expressed in several structures, including branchial arch; genitourinary system; gut; sensory organ; and surface ectoderm. Orthologous to human CLDN17 (claudin 17).