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[Urea transporters].

Nephrologie, 1997
Water and urea use different pathways to cross biological membranes: channels and carriers. Numerous water channels were cloned (aquaporins); only two urea transporters are characterized in mammalians (UT2 and UT11) with sequence homologies suggesting two different carriers.
P, Ripoche, G, Rousselet
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Urea transport in the toad bladder; Coupling of urea flows

The Journal of Membrane Biology, 1973
Urea transport across amphibian membranes is influenced by interactions with the membrane, the solvent and other solutes. One case of solute interaction, that in which the two species are chemically identical, is investigated here. Because of the effects of hypertonic urea on permeability, the demonstration of interaction required consideration of the ...
P D, Lief, A, Essig
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Urea–Aromatic Stacking and Concerted Urea Transport: Conserved Mechanisms in Urea Transporters Revealed by Molecular Dynamics

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2016
Urea transporters are membrane proteins that selectively allow urea molecules to pass through. It is not clear how these transporters allow rapid conduction of urea, a polar molecule, in spite of the presence of a hydrophobic constriction lined by aromatic rings.
Siladitya, Padhi, U Deva, Priyakumar
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WATER CHANNELS AND UREA TRANSPORTERS

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 1997
SUMMARY1. It now appears that when water crosses an endothelium which is not fenestrated, or an epithelium with tight junctions, it does so rapidly, and with low energy cost, only if the cell membrane contains an adequate number of specific water channels, encoded by one of at least six different genes.2.
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Computation and Simulation of the Structural Characteristics of the Kidney Urea Transporter and Behaviors of Urea Transport

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015
Urea transporters are a family of membrane proteins that transport urea molecules across cell membranes and play important roles in a variety of physiological processes. Although the crystal structure of bacterial urea channel dvUT has been solved, there lacks an understanding of the dynamics of urea transport in dvUT. In this study, by using molecular
Zhe, Wang   +5 more
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Molecular Mechanisms of Urea Transport

Journal of Membrane Biology, 2003
Physiologic data provided evidence for specific urea transporter proteins in red blood cells and kidney inner medulla. During the past decade, molecular approaches resulted in the cloning of several urea transporter cDNA isoforms derived from two gene families: UT-A and UT-B. Polyclonal antibodies were generated to the cloned urea transporter proteins,
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Transport Characteristics of Urea Transporter-B

2014
UT-B represents the major urea transporter in erythrocytes, in addition to being expressed in kidney descending vasa recta, brain, spleen, ureter, bladder, and testis. Expression of urea transporter UT-B confers high urea permeability to mammalian erythrocytes.
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The Physiology and Evolution of Urea Transport in Fishes

Journal of Membrane Biology, 2006
This review summarizes what is currently known about urea transporters in fishes in the context of their physiology and evolution within the vertebrates. The existence of urea transporters has been investigated in red blood cells and hepatocytes of fish as well as in renal and branchial cells. Little is known about urea transport in red blood cells and
McDonald, M. D.   +2 more
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The sweet side of urea transporters

American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, 2012
UREA IS PRODUCED AS AN END product of protein catabolism in the liver and is ultimately excreted by the kidney. However, this unique small molecule of only 60 daltons is also used by the kidney to control water balance by a complex process that involves both secretion and reabsorption of urea throughout the entire renal tubule (11).
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Biochemical Properties of Urea Transporters

2014
Urea and urea transporters (UT) are critical to the production of concentrated urine and hence in maintaining body fluid balance. The UT-A1 urea transporter is the major and most important UT isoform in the kidney. Native UT-A1, expressed in the terminal inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) epithelial cells, is a glycosylated protein with two ...
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