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Aquaporin Evolution in Fishes

Aquaporins represent a primordial group of transmembrane solvent channels that have been documented throughout the living biota. This facet alone emphasizes the positive selection pressure for proteins associated with intracellular fluid homeostasis. Amongst extant Eukaryota the highest gene copy nu...

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Autores principales: Finn, Roderick Nigel, Cerdà, Joan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886623
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2011.00044
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description Aquaporins represent a primordial group of transmembrane solvent channels that have been documented throughout the living biota. This facet alone emphasizes the positive selection pressure for proteins associated with intracellular fluid homeostasis. Amongst extant Eukaryota the highest gene copy number can be found in plants and teleosts, a feature that reflects the genomic duplication history in both groups. In this minireview we discuss the discovery, structure, duplication, and diversification of the aquaporin superfamily. We focus on teleosts as the main models, but include data available for other organisms to provide a broader perspective.
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spelling pubmed-31452512011-08-31 Aquaporin Evolution in Fishes Finn, Roderick Nigel Cerdà, Joan Front Physiol Physiology Aquaporins represent a primordial group of transmembrane solvent channels that have been documented throughout the living biota. This facet alone emphasizes the positive selection pressure for proteins associated with intracellular fluid homeostasis. Amongst extant Eukaryota the highest gene copy number can be found in plants and teleosts, a feature that reflects the genomic duplication history in both groups. In this minireview we discuss the discovery, structure, duplication, and diversification of the aquaporin superfamily. We focus on teleosts as the main models, but include data available for other organisms to provide a broader perspective. Frontiers Research Foundation 2011-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3145251/ /pubmed/21886623 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2011.00044 Text en Copyright © 2011 Finn and Cerdà. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to a non-exclusive license between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and other Frontiers conditions are complied with.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145251/
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