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The aquaporin family of water channels in kidney.
Kidney international - 1 Oct 1995
Nielsen S, Agre P
Abstract excerpt
The longstanding puzzle of membrane water permeability was advanced by the discovery of channel-forming integral protein (CHIP). This protein was shown to function as a water channel when expressed in Xenopus oocytes or when reconstituted into synthetic membranes. Site-directed mutagenesis and electron crystallography reveal tetrameric organization of CHIP, and the two halves of CHIP are tandem repeats folded...
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