AQP1 expression analysis in human diseases: Implications for proteomic characterization

Expert Review of Proteomics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-44

  Magni, Fulvio ^a   Chinello, Clizia ^a   Raimondo, Francesca ^a   Mocarelli, Paolo ^a   Kienle, Marzia Galli ^a   Pitto, Marina ^a  

^a Department of Experimental Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 1; Clear cell renal cell carcinoma; Human cancer; Mass spectrometry; Microdomain; Water channel

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 1; GLYCEROL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL STRESS; CHANNEL GATING; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 39649119907     PISSN: 14789450     EISSN: 17448387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14789450.5.1.29     Document Type: Review

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