Chloride transport protein 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLCN6 gene.
The CLCN family of voltage-dependent chloride channel genes comprises nine members (CLCN1-7, Ka and Kb) which demonstrate quite diverse functional characteristics while sharing significant sequence homology. Chloride channel 6 and 7 belong to a subbranch of this family. Chloride channel 6 has four different alternatively spliced transcript variants. This gene is in close vicinity to two other kidney-specific chloride channel genes, CLCNKA and CLCNKB.
See also
- Chloride channel
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External links
- CLCN6 protein, human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Human CLCN6 genome location and CLCN6 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.
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