Adaptable and multifunctional ion-conducting aquaporins

SD Tyerman, SA McGaughey, J Qiu… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Aquaporins function as water and neutral solute channels, signaling hubs, disease virulence
factors, and metabolon components. We consider plant aquaporins that transport ions …

Plant aquaporins: membrane channels with multiple integrated functions

C Maurel, L Verdoucq, DT Luu… - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Aquaporins are channel proteins present in the plasma and intracellular membranes of plant
cells, where they facilitate the transport of water and/or small neutral solutes (urea, boric …

Aquaporins in plants

C Maurel, Y Boursiac, DT Luu, V Santoni… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral
molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. In plants, aquaporins …

Plant aquaporins: roles in plant physiology

G Li, V Santoni, C Maurel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and
small neutral molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. Scope of …

Carbon dioxide and water transport through plant aquaporins

M Groszmann, HL Osborn… - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aquaporins are channel proteins that function to increase the permeability of biological
membranes. In plants, aquaporins are encoded by multigene families that have undergone …

Plant aquaporins: their molecular biology, biophysics and significance for plant water relations

SD Tyerman, HJ Bohnert, C Maurel, E Steudle… - Journal of Experimental …, 1999 - JSTOR
Over the last decade, considerable advances have occurred in understanding the molecular
biology and biophysics of water permeation across plant membranes and tissues. Spurred …

Aquaporins in a challenging environment: molecular gears for adjusting plant water status

DT LUU, C Maurel - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Plants have to adjust their water balance in response to very challenging environmental
conditions such as drought, salinity, and cold but also changes in light, nutrient deficiency or …

A PIP1 aquaporin contributes to hydrostatic pressure-induced water transport in both the root and rosette of Arabidopsis

O Postaire, C Tournaire-Roux, A Grondin… - Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water across plant cell
membranes. In this work, we used a combination of pharmacological and reverse genetic …

Aquaporins: highly regulated channels controlling plant water relations

F Chaumont, SD Tyerman - Plant physiology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Plant growth and development are dependent on tight regulation of water movement. Water
diffusion across cell membranes is facilitated by aquaporins that provide plants with the …

The roles of aquaporins in plant stress responses

Z Afzal, TC Howton, Y Sun, MS Mukhtar - Journal of developmental …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aquaporins are membrane channel proteins ubiquitously present in all kingdoms of life.
Although aquaporins were originally discovered as water channels, their roles in the …