The three-dimensional structure of aquaporin-1

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6633, 1997, Pages 624-627

  Walz, Thomas ^a,b   Hirai, Teruhisa ^c   Murata, Kazuyoshi ^c   Heymann, J Bernard ^a   Mitsuoka, Kaoru ^c   Fujiyoshi, Yoshinori ^d   Smith, Barbara L ^e   Agre, Peter ^e   Engel, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN;

ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WATER PERMEABILITY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORINS; BLOOD PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030926720     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42512     Document Type: Article

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