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Cells, 2019 Aquaporins are integral membrane proteins that facilitate the diffusion of water and other small, uncharged solutes across the cellular membrane and are widely distributed in organisms from humans to bacteria.
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Physiological Reviews, 2015 Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. In plants, aquaporins occur as multiple isoforms reflecting a high diversity of cellular localizations, transport selectivity, and regulation properties.
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The Roles of Aquaporins in Plant Stress Responses
Journal of Developmental Biology, 2016 Aquaporins are membrane channel proteins ubiquitously present in all kingdoms of life. Although aquaporins were originally discovered as water channels, their roles in the transport of small neutral solutes, gasses, and metal ions are now well ...
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Plants, 2020 Enhancement of the passage of water through membranes is one of the main mechanisms via which cells can maintain their homeostasis under stress conditions, and aquaporins are the main participants in this process. However, in the last few years, a number
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Adaptable and Multifunctional Ion-Conducting Aquaporins
Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2021 Aquaporins function as water and neutral solute channels, signaling hubs, disease virulence factors, and metabolon components. We consider plant aquaporins that transport ions compared to some animal counterparts.
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Are Aquaporins Expressed in Stomatal Complexes Promising Targets to Enhance Stomatal Dynamics?
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 The opening and closure of stomata depend on the turgor pressure adjustment by the influx or efflux of ions and water in guard cells. In this process, aquaporins may play important roles by facilitating the transport of water and other small molecules ...
Lei Ding, François Chaumont
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Analysis of aquaporins from the euryhaline barnacle Balanus improvisus reveals differential expression in response to changes in salinity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Barnacles are sessile macro-invertebrates, found along rocky shores in coastal areas worldwide. The euryhaline bay barnacle Balanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) (= Amphibalanus improvisus) can tolerate a wide range of salinities, but the molecular ...
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Plasma membrane aquaporins mediates vesicle stability in broccoli. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The use of in vitro membrane vesicles is attractive because of possible applications in therapies. Here we aimed to compare the stability and functionality of plasma membrane vesicles extracted from control and salt-treated broccoli.
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Phosphorylation-Dependent Regulation of Mammalian Aquaporins
Cells, 2019 Water homeostasis is fundamental for cell survival. Transport of water across cellular membranes is governed by aquaporins—tetrameric integral membrane channels that are highly conserved throughout the prokaryotic and eukaryotic kingdoms.
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Aquaporins Involvement in Pancreas Physiology and in Pancreatic Diseases
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019 Aquaporins are a family of transmembrane proteins permeable to water. In mammals, they are subdivided into classical aquaporins that are permeable to water; aquaglyceroporins that are permeable to water, glycerol and urea; peroxiporins that facilitate ...
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