Plants often encounter unfavorable environmental conditions because of their sessile
lifestyle. These adverse factors greatly affect the geographic distribution of plants, as well as …

The ability to adapt to altered availability of free water is a fundamental property of living
cells. The principles underlying osmoadaptation are well conserved. The yeast …

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 …

Major intrinsic proteins (MIPs) facilitate the passive transport of small polar molecules across
membranes. MIPs constitute a very old family of proteins and different forms have been …

Brain function is inextricably coupled to water homeostasis. The fact that most of the volume
between neurons is occupied by glial cells, leaving only a narrow extracellular space …

There is strong evidence that aquaporins are central components in plant water relations.
Plant species possess more aquaporin genes than species from other kingdoms. According …

Aquaporins (AQPs) are ubiquitous membrane proteins whose identification, pioneered by
Peter Agre's team in the early nineties, provided a molecular basis for transmembrane water …

Aquaporins are ubiquitous channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water across cell
membranes. Aquaporins show a typically high isoform multiplicity in plants, with 35 …

Background In the post-genomic era newly sequenced genomes can be used to deduce
organismal functions from our knowledge of other systems. Here we apply this approach to …

Aquaporin protein regulation and redistribution in response to osmotic stress was
investigated. Ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) Mc TIP1; 2 (Mc MIPF) mediated …