The evolutionary aspects of aquaporin family

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ishibashi, Kenichi ^a   Kondo, Shintaro ^a   Hara, Shigeki ^a   Morishita, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquaglyceroporin; Classical aquaporin; Evolution; Unorthodox aquaporin; Water channel

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AQUAGLYCEROPORIN; AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 10; AQUAPORIN 11; AQUAPORIN 12; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 4 ANTIBODY; AQUAPORIN 6; AQUAPORIN 7; AQUAPORIN 8; AQUAPORIN 9; ASPARAGINE; GLYCEROL; PROLINE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINAR CELL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOCYTOSIS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID TRANSPORT; METHANOTHERMOBACTER MARBURGENSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PICHIA PASTORIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SECRETION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TONOPLAST; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WATER TRANSPORT; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; WATER; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 79954533602     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90464.2008     Document Type: Review

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