Regulation of plant aquaporin activity

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 749-764

  Chaumont, Françoise ^a   Moshelion, Menachem ^a,c   Daniels, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Gating; Heteromerization; Phosphorylation; Structure; Water channel

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 6; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT OSMOTIC POTENTIAL; PLANT WATER RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WATER;

EID: 26944462019     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BC20040133     Document Type: Review

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