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The aquaporin family of membrane water channels
The rapid movement of water across the plasma membranes of certain cells has been a long-standing puzzle to membrane biophysicists and physiologists; the discovery of the red cell channel-forming integral protein has provided a molecular solution to this puzzle. The identification of this protein ha...
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author | Engel, Andreas Walz, Thomas Agre, Peter |
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description | The rapid movement of water across the plasma membranes of certain cells has been a long-standing puzzle to membrane biophysicists and physiologists; the discovery of the red cell channel-forming integral protein has provided a molecular solution to this puzzle. The identification of this protein has led to the recognition of a family of related water-selective channels, the aquaporins, that are found in animals, plants and microbial organisms. In order to provide insight into the remarkable but simple function of these membrane proteins, their structures are being elucidated. |
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spelling | pubmed-71332942020-04-08 The aquaporin family of membrane water channels Engel, Andreas Walz, Thomas Agre, Peter Curr Opin Struct Biol Article The rapid movement of water across the plasma membranes of certain cells has been a long-standing puzzle to membrane biophysicists and physiologists; the discovery of the red cell channel-forming integral protein has provided a molecular solution to this puzzle. The identification of this protein has led to the recognition of a family of related water-selective channels, the aquaporins, that are found in animals, plants and microbial organisms. In order to provide insight into the remarkable but simple function of these membrane proteins, their structures are being elucidated. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1994 2004-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7133294/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0959-440X(94)90217-8 Text en Copyright © 1994 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Engel, Andreas Walz, Thomas Agre, Peter The aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
title | The aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
title_full | The aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
title_fullStr | The aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
title_full_unstemmed | The aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
title_short | The aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
title_sort | aquaporin family of membrane water channels |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7133294/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0959-440X(94)90217-8 |
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