Functional analysis of novel aquaporins from Fasciola gigantica

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 144-153

  Geadkaew, Amornrat ^a   Von Bülow, Julia ^b   Beitz, Eric ^b   Grams, Suksiri Vichasri ^c   Viyanant, Vithoon ^a   Grams, Rudi ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Mahidol University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Fasciola gigantica; Ovary; Platyhelminthes; Tegument; Testes

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; GLYCEROL; UREA; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TESTIS; WORM TEGUMENT; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; FASCIOLA; GLYCEROL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHYLAMINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UREA; WATER; XENOPUS;

FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; MAMMALIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; RATTUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 78650308723     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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