From genome to function: the Arabidopsis aquaporins

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Quigley, Francoise ^a,c   Rosenberg, Joshua M ^b   Shachar Hill, Yair ^b   Bohnert, Hans J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Deduce Protein Sequence; Human AQP1; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Water Flux; Water Movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346769749     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-3-1-research0001     Document Type: Article

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