Jia, Yanglei Liu, Xiao
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundAquaporins (AQPs), as members of the major intrinsic protein (MIP) superfamily, facilitated the permeation of water and other solutes and are involved in multiple biological processes. AQP family exists in almost all living organisms and is highly diversified in vertebrates in both classification and function due to genome wide duplicatio...
Agusti-Ridaura, Celia Bakke, Marit Jørgensen Helgesen, Kari Olli Sundaram, Arvind Y. M. Bakke, Sigrid Jørgensen Kaur, Kiranpreet Horsberg, Tor Einar
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundHydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is one of the delousing agents used to control sea lice infestations in salmonid aquaculture. However, some Lepeophtheirus salmonis populations have developed resistance towards H2O2. An increased gene expression and activity of catalase, an enzyme that breaks down H2O2, have been detected in resistant lice, being...
Xu, Yi Jin, Zhiqiang Xu, Biyu Li, Jingyang Li, Yujia Wang, Xiaoyi Wang, Anbang Hu, Wei Huang, Dongmei Wei, Qing
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BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundDrought stress can severely affect plant growth and crop yield. The cloning and identification of drought-inducible promoters would be of value for genetically-based strategies to improve resistance of crops to drought.ResultsPrevious studies showed that the MaPIP1;1 gene encoding an aquaporin is involved in the plant drought stress respo...
Luo, Hui Liu, Yi Song, Yizuo Hua, Ying Zhu, Xueqiong
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Cell and Tissue Research
To explore the effects of aquaporin (AQP) 1 on pregnancy outcome and the association between expression of AQP1 and other AQPs in the placenta and foetal membranes, the rate of copulatory plugs and pregnancy, amniotic fluid (AF) volume, osmolality and composition were determined in AQP1 -knockout ( AQP1 −/−) mice at different gestational days (GD)....
Chan, Ruth Falato, Michael Liang, Huiyun Chen, Liao Y.
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RSC advances
Quantitatively predictive study of aquaporins in model erythrocyte membrane validated with cellular experiments.
Guo, Ruimin Li, Yanjun Han, Min Liu, Jun Sun, Yanni
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International immunopharmacology
Acute lung injury (ALI) is a major cause of sepsis-induced acute respiratory failure. Emodin has been considered to play a protective role for acute lung edema in cecal ligation and puncture (CLP)-induced sepsis model. In this study we aimed to investigate whether emodin could improve CLP-induced lung sepsis via regulating aquaporin (AQP) and tight...
Qiao, Yujie Ren, Jianhong Yin, Lina Liu, Yijian Deng, Xiping Liu, Peng Wang, Shiwen
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BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundWater deficiency is likely to become more frequent and intense as a result of global climate change, which may severely impact agricultural production in the world. The positive effects of melatonin (MEL) on alleviation drought or osmotic stress-induced water deficiency in plants has been well reported. However, the underlying mechanism o...
Kitchen, Philip Salman, Mootaz M. Halsey, Andrea M. Clarke-Bland, Charlotte MacDonald, Justin A. Ishida, Hiroaki Vogel, Hans J. Almutiri, Sharif Logan, Ann Kreida, Stefan
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Cell
Modulating the subcellular localization of the water channel protein AQP4 may be a therapeutic option for treatment of brain and spinal cord edemas.
Singh, Roshan Kumar Deshmukh, Rupesh Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan Rani, Rekha Prasad, Manoj
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Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB
Aquaporins are pore-forming transmembrane proteins that facilitate the movement of water and many other small neutral solutes across the cells and intracellular compartments. Plants exhibits high diversity in aquaporin isoforms and broadly classified into five different subfamilies on the basis of phylogenetic distribution and subcellular occurrenc...
Youkharibache, Philippe Tran, Alexander Abrol, Ravinder
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Journal of Molecular Evolution
The polytopic helical membrane proteome is dominated by proteins containing seven transmembrane helices (7TMHs). They cannot be grouped under a monolithic fold or superfold. However, a parallel structural analysis of folds around that magic number of seven in distinct protein superfamilies (SWEET, PnuC, TRIC, FocA, Aquaporin, GPCRs) reveals a commo...
