Aquaporins are now known to mediate the rapid exchange of water across the plasma
membranes of diverse cell types. This exchange has been studied and kinetically …

Figure 1. Structure and cellular functions of aquaporins.(A) Membrane topography of the
aquaporin monomer (left) and crystal structure (AQP1, PDB 1j4n)(side view, left; top view …

The electron crystallographic structure of the aquaporin-1 water channel, determined at
approximately 6A, reveals that the protein has six transmembrane alpha-helices forming a …

Background Insight into protein–protein interactions (PPIs) is highly desirable in order to
understand the physiology of cellular events. This understanding is one of the challenges in …

Membrane proteins: Aquaporins — channels without ions Page 1 Dispatch R71 Membrane
proteins: Aquaporins — channels without ions Mark SP Sansom and Richard J. Law Recently …

Aquaporin-1 (AQP1) is a member of a family of integral membrane proteins, the aquaporins,
which function as molecular channels for the movement of water across the plasma …

Water Transporters: How So Fast Yet So Selective? Dispatch Page 1 Water Transporters: How
So Fast Yet So Selective? Dispatch Richard J. Law and Mark SP Sansom A high-resolution …

Ten aquaporins have been cloned from various mammalian tissues. They are grouped
according to their structure and function. The first group consists of 7 aquaporins; AQP0, 1, 2 …

Water channel proteins, aquaporins, are integral membrane proteins serving in the
permeation of water and some other small molecules. Eleven isoforms of aquaporins have …

Aquaporins are transmembrane proteins that contain six bilayer-spanning domains,
connected by loops A to E. The hourglass model predicts that the conserved loops B and E …