… The Human Genome Organization has established an Aquaporin Nomenclature System for
… importance in transport, this review has focused on aquaporins in the mammalian kidney, …

… Aquaporins are also known as water channel proteins. Since the discovery of the first aquaporin
(AQP1) in mammals, many aquaporins … of the water channel protein, the nomenclature …

… mammals and plants they are present in almost all organs and tissues and their function is
mostly associated to water molecule … ) the aquaporin (AQP) subfamily includes water and ions …

… This has now been adopted as the name for all sequence-related water … two aquaporin
homologs in that bacteria. As noted previously, phylogenetic analysis of mammalian aquaporins …

… surprise that the initial cloning of aquaporin 1 (AQP1), the archetypal water channel, boosted
research for the study of water transport and osmoregulation in mammals. Forty years ago, …

… Nomenclature Committee has accepted this nomenclature for … of other aquaporins such as
bacterial aquaporin-Z and plant … a functional homolog of the mammalian collecting duct) and …

… If we compare aquaporin (as a proteic pathway for water … or mammalian cell in culture is
almost 90% water by weight. … a year later received a proper name, aquaporin. Soon after, it was …

… molecules from the cell interior, suggesting a very specific channel structure. This review
focuses on the one water channel protein, aquaporin-… tree of the mammalian aquaporins (AQP0…

… Agre, P., 1997, Molecular physiology of water transport: aquaporin nomenclature workshop.
… and Verkman, AS, 1997, Water and glycerol permeabilities of aquaporins 1-5 and MIP deter…

… Agre, P., 1997, Molecular physiology of water transport: aquaporin nomenclature workshop.
… and Verkman, AS, 1997, Water and glycerol permeabilities of aquaporins 1–5 and MIP deter…