Mutations at key pore-lining positions differentiate the water permeability of fish lens aquaporin from other vertebrates

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 4797-4801

  Calvanese, Luisa ^a   Pellegrini Calace, Marialuisa ^b,d   Oliva, Romina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Aquaporin 0; Comparative analysis; Fish vision; Molecular modeling; Water transport

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 0; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FLUID BALANCE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPARISON; VERTEBRATE; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AIR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CATTLE; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; WATER;

CYPRINODONTOIDEI; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649646558     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.058     Document Type: Article

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