The aquaporin family of water channels in kidney

S Nielsen, P Agre - Kidney international, 1995 - Elsevier
The aquaporin family of water channels in kidney. The longstanding puzzle of membrane
water permeability was advanced by the discovery of channel-forming integral protein …

Cloning and identification of a new member of water channel (AQP10) as an aquaglyceroporin

K Ishibashi, T Morinaga, M Kuwahara, S Sasaki… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2002 - Elsevier
Recently, a new member of aquaporins was reported as AQP10 [Biochem. Biophys. Res.
Commun. 287 (2001) 814], which is incompletely spliced to lose the sixth transmembrane …

Aquaporin water channels: unanswered questions and unresolved controversies

P Agre, D Brown, S Nielsen - Current opinion in cell biology, 1995 - Elsevier
The long-standing biophysical question of how water crosses plasma membranes has been
answered by the recent discovery of the aquaporins. Identification of this large family of …

The aquaporin family of molecular water channels.

MA Knepper - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
The aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of intrinsic membrane proteins that function as water-
selective channels in the plasma membranes of the cells of many water-transporting tissues …

High-resolution x-ray structure of human aquaporin 5

R Horsefield, K Nordén, M Fellert… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Human aquaporin 5 (HsAQP5) facilitates the transport of water across plasma membranes
and has been identified within cells of the stomach, duodenum, pancreas, airways, lungs …

Physiological importance of aquaporin water channels

AS Verkman - Annals of medicine, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Aquaporins (AQP) are a family of at least ten homologous water transporting proteins in
mammals that are expressed in many epithelial, endothelial and other tissues. Abnormalities …

The structure of aquaporins

T Gonen, T Walz - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2006 - cambridge.org
1. Introduction 3621.1 The elusive water pores 3621.2 CHIP28 3622. Studies on AQP-1
3632.1 Expression of AQP1 cDNA in Xenopus oocytes 3632.2 Reconstitution of purified …

Aquaporins in the kidney: from molecules to medicine

S Nielsen, J Frøkiær, D Marples… - Physiological …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
The discovery of aquaporin-1 (AQP1) answered the long-standing biophysical question of
how water specifically crosses biological membranes. In the kidney, at least seven …

Beyond water homeostasis: Diverse functional roles of mammalian aquaporins

P Kitchen, RE Day, MM Salman, MT Conner… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Aquaporin (AQP) water channels are best known as passive transporters of
water that are vital for water homeostasis. Scope of review AQP knockout studies in whole …

Physiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Aquaporinsa

S Nielsen, TAEH KWON, BM Christensen… - Journal of the …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
The discovery of aquaporin membrane water channels by Agre and coworkers answered a
long-standing biophysical question of how water specifically crosses biologic membranes …