Functional characterization of a water channel of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1517, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-112

  Kuwahara, Michio ^a   Asai, Tomiki ^a   Sato, Kazunori ^a   Shinbo, Itsuki ^a,b   Terada, Yoshio ^a   Marumo, Fumiaki ^a   Sasaki, Sei ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Caenorhabditis elegans; Mercury sensitive cysteine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AQUAPORIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; GLYCEROL; ISOPROTEIN; MAJOR INTRINSIC PROTEIN; MERCURY; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN D TIP; SERINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0034672589     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00268-2     Document Type: Article

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