Hepatitis C Virus Infects the Endothelial Cells of the Blood-Brain Barrier. Fletcher NF, Wilson GK, Murray J, Hu K, Lewis A, Reynolds GM, Stamataki Z, Meredith LW, Rowe IA, Luo G, Lopez-Ramirez MA, Baumert TF, Weksler B, Couraud PO, Kim KS, Romero IA, Jopling C, Morgello S, Balfe P, McKeating JA.Gastroenterology. 2011 Nov 30.
Immunoprecipitation of CLDN1 transfected lysate using anti-CLDN1 monoclonal antibody and Protein A Magnetic Bead (U0007), and immunoblotted with CLDN1 MaxPab rabbit polyclonal antibody.
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 comprised 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. Loss of function mutations result in neonatal ichthyosis-sclerosing cholangitis syndrome. [provided by RefSeq
Other Designations:
senescence-associated epithelial membrane protein 1