Osmotic water transport in aquaporins: Evidence for a stochastic mechanism

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5017-5029

  Zeuthen, Thomas ^a   Alsterfjord, Magnus ^a   Beitz, Eric ^b   Macaulay, Nanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 9; ARGININE; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WATER; XENOPUS;

EID: 84885424526     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.261321     Document Type: Article

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