Anterior Umbilication of Lens in a Family with Congenital Cataracts Associated with a Missense Mutation of MIP Gene

Z Cheng, X Wang, Q Wang, X Zhang, D Wang… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
R33C variant of AQP0 caused a significant reduction in the cell-to-cell adhesion of fiber cells
but did not influence the water channel function [21]… These results suggest that MIP/AQP0 is …

[HTML][HTML] Novel MIP gene mutation causes autosomal-dominant congenital cataract

JL Ni, HM Wen, XS Huang, QW Li, JM Cai… - International Journal …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
AQP0 is the most abundant AQP in the lens fibre cell … cataract families examined in this
study had missense mutations in the … the change of arginine at amino acid 33 to cysteine (R33C), …

Beyond the channels: adhesion functions of aquaporin 0 and connexin 50 in lens development

Z Li, Y Quan, S Gu, JX Jiang - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aqp0-R33C, a congenital cataract mutation of AQP0, showed proper intracellular trafficking,
… in our understanding of the adhesion function mediated by AQP0 and Cx50 in lens …

Differences in a single extracellular residue underlie adhesive functions of two zebrafish Aqp0s

I Vorontsova, JE Hall, TF Schilling, N Nagai… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
… has been the most studied function of AQP0, largely in expression … AQP0 mutation, R33C,
had reduced adhesive properties, while water permeability was unaffected [9]. Bovine AQP0

Signaling mechanisms and pharmacological modulators governing diverse aquaporin functions in human health and disease

K Wagner, L Unger, MM Salman, P Kitchen… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
AQP0 is thought to be almost exclusively expressed in lens fiber cells (Figure 3B); AQP1 is
AQP0 mutations have been linked with congenital cataracts [177]. The knockdown of AQP1 …

Aquaporins-Novel approaches to old problems

CJ Hagströmer - 2023 - portal.research.lu.se
… and functional analysis of aquaporin 2 mutants involved in … , structure, or regulation of
AQP0. Since the circulation within … the underlying mechanisms of congenital NDI (Paper IV). …

AQP5 regulates vimentin expression via miR-124–3p. 1 to protect lens transparency

S Tang, G Di, S Hu, Y Liu, Y Dai, P Chen - Experimental Eye Research, 2021 - Elsevier
missense mutation of AQP5 (c.152 T > C, p. L51P) in the four generations of the autosomal
dominantCongenital cataract (CC) are characterized by the opacity of the lens of the eye and …

A novel single‐base deletional mutation of MIP impairs protein distribution and cell‐to‐cell adhesion in autosomal dominant cataracts in a Chinese family

Y Yu, Y Qiao, Y Ye, C Luo, K Yao - American Journal of Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… clearly showed that the mutant AQP0-Ala101fs produced a … , including 20 missense
mutations, 10 frameshift mutations, … The cataract-linked R33C mutation causes no damage to the …

Aquaporin gating: a new twist to unravel permeation through water channels

M Ozu, JJ Alvear-Arias, M Fernandez… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… In AQP6 and AQP0, lowering pH induces a totally opposite effect: an increase in water
transport capacity [154,155]. The pH sensitivity of AQP0 is affected by mutations on His40 from the …

The relationship between major intrinsic protein genes and cataract

W Sun, J Xu, Y Gu, C Du - International Ophthalmology, 2021 - Springer
… aquaporin0 (AQP0). Since Shiels and Bassett identified a novel … The nonsense mutation in
this study encoded a premature … R33C in the MIP gene associated with CC, and the cataract …