Currently, aquaporins (AQPs) are divided into two subfamilies: AQP1 group and AQP3
group. AQP1 group is water-selective AQP and has 6 members in mammals: AQPO, AQP1 …

Aquaporin (AQP) 6 belongs to the aquaporin water channel family. Unlike other aquaporins,
AQP6 functions not as a water channel but as an anion-selective channel. Single-channel …

Recently, two novel mammalian aquaporins (AQPs), AQPs 11 and 12, have been identified
and classified as members of a new AQP subfamily, the “subcellular AQPs”. In members of …

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 …

Background information. Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of channels permeable to water
and some small solutes. In mammals, 13 members (AQP0–AQP12) have been found. AQP8 …

The mammalian aquaporins AQP1, AQP4, and AQP5 have been shown to function not only
as water channels but also as gas channels. Zebrafish have two genes encoding an AQP1 …

Aquaporins (AQPs) were originally identified as channels facilitating water transport across
the plasma membrane. They have a pair of highly conserved signature sequences …

The membrane water channel aquaporin (AQP) family is composed of 13 isoforms in
mammals, eight of which are reportedly expressed in the kidney: AQP1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and …

The water permeability of biological membranes has been a longstanding problem in
physiology, but the proteins responsible for this remained unknown until discovery of the …

How water permeates cellular membranes and what this means for cell functioning and
several diseases are now emerging from the study of the aquaporins (AQPs), the water …