Aquaporin-0 membrane junctions reveal the structure of a closed water pore

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6988, 2004, Pages 193-197

  Gonen, Tamir ^a   Silz, Plotr ^a,b   Kistler, Joerg ^c   Cheng, Yifan ^a   Walz, Thomas ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS;

AQUAPORIN; MEMBRANE JUNCTIONS; PORE CONSTRICTION;

WATER;

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 0; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; MEMBRANE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LENS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EYE PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SHEEP; WATER;

EID: 2442659197     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02503     Document Type: Article

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