The role of MIP in lens fiber cell membrane transport.

doi:10.1007/s002329900549

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The role of MIP in lens fiber cell membrane transport.

The Journal of membrane biology - 1 Aug 1999

Varadaraj K, Kushmerick C, Baldo G J, Bassnett S, Shiels A, Mathias R T

Abstract excerpt

MIP has been hypothesized to be a gap junction protein, a membrane ion channel, a membrane water channel and a facilitator of glycerol transport and metabolism. These possible roles have been indirectly suggested by the localization of MIP in lens gap junctional plaques and the properties of MIP when reconstituted into artificial membranes or exogenously expressed in oocytes. We have examined lens fiber cells to...

Topics

Animals
Anura
Aquaporins
Cell Membrane Permeability
Electric Conductivity
Epithelial Cells
Eye Proteins
Gap Junctions
Glycerol
Ion Channels
Lens Cortex, Crystalline
Male
Membrane Glycoproteins
Mice
Mutation
Rabbits
Water

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PMID: 10441663
DOI: 10.1007/s002329900549

Genes

MIP
AQP1

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