Article
Phosphorylation regulates the water channel activity of the seed-specific aquaporin alpha-TIP.
The EMBO journal - 3 Jul 1995
Maurel C, Kado R T, Guern J, Chrispeels M J
Abstract excerpt
The vacuolar membrane protein alpha-TIP is a seed-specific protein of the Major Intrinsic Protein family. Expression of alpha-TIP in Xenopus oocytes conferred a 4- to 8-fold increase in the osmotic water permeability (Pf) of the oocyte plasma membrane, showing that alpha-TIP forms water channels and is thus a new aquaporin. alpha-TIP has three putative phosphorylation sites on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane...
Topics
- 1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine
- 8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Colforsin
- Cyclic AMP
- Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
- Female
- Genes, Plant
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
