The first discovered water channel protein, later called aquaporin 1: Molecular characteristics, functions and medical implications

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 518-534

  Benga, Gheorghe ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Cluj County Clinical Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

^b VASILE GOLDIS WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF ARAD   (Romania)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^d Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences   (Romania)

^e OUTNOBEL Foundation   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aquaporins; Discovery; Medical implications; Physiological roles; Red blood cells; Water channel proteins

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AQUAPORIN 1; CARBON DIOXIDE; ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOMER; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROTON; TETRAMER;

ANGIOGENESIS; AQP1 GENE; CELL MIGRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; EYE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LACRIMAL GLAND DISEASE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; GASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; WATER;

EID: 84865498165     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.06.001     Document Type: Review

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