Article
Toward understanding of the high number of plant aquaporin isoforms and multiple regulation mechanisms.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Nov 2017
Fox Ana Romina, Maistriaux Laurie C, Chaumont François
Abstract excerpt
Since the discovery of the first plant aquaporin (AQP) in 1993, our conception of the way plants control cell water homeostasis as well as their global water balance has been revisited. Plant AQPs constitute a large family of evolutionarily related channels that, in addition to water, can also facilitate the membrane diffusion of a number of small solutes, such as urea, CO2, H2O2, ammonia, metalloids, and even...
Topics
- Aquaporins
- Carbon Dioxide
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genetic Variation
- Homeostasis
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Models, Biological
- Plant Proteins
- Plants
- Protein Isoforms
- Substrate Specificity