Article
The aquaporin family of water channels in kidney.
Nephrologie - 1 Jan 1996
Agre P, Nielsen S
Abstract excerpt
The longstanding puzzle of membrane water-permeability was advanced by discovery of a new class of proteins known as the "aquaporins" (AQPs). First identified in red blood cells, AQP1 was shown to function as a water channel when expressed in Xenopus oocytes or when pure AQP1 protein was reconsti...
Topics
- Animals
- Aquaporin 1
- Aquaporin 2
- Aquaporin 3
- Aquaporin 4
- Aquaporin 6
- Aquaporins
- Blood Group Antigens
- Humans
- Ion Channels
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid