Modulating the expression of aquaporin genes in planta: A key to understand their physiological functions?

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1758, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1142-1156

  Hachez, Charles ^a   Zelazny, Enric ^a   Chaumont, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Hydraulic conductivity; Membrane permeability; Water relation

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AQUAPORIN GENE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SALTS; WATER;

EID: 33748563984     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2006.02.017     Document Type: Review

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