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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-12
pubmed:abstractText
Aquaporins are water channel proteins belonging to the major intrinsic protein (MIP) superfamily of membrane proteins. More than 150 MIPs have been identified in organisms ranging from bacteria to animals and plants. In plants, aquaporins are present in the plasma membrane and in the vacuolar membrane where they are abundant constituents. Functional studies of aquaporins have hitherto mainly been performed by heterologous expression in Xenopus oocytes. A main issue is now to understand their role in the plant, where they are likely to be important both at the cellular and at the whole plant level. Plants contain a large number of aquaporin isoforms with distinct cell type- and tissue-specific expression patterns. Some of these are constitutively expressed, whereas the expression of others is regulated in response to environmental factors, such as drought and salinity. At the protein level, regulation of water transport activity by phosphorylation has been reported for some aquaporins.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0006-3002
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
1465
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
324-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Aquaporins, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Biological Transport, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Intracellular Membranes, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Isoelectric Point, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Plant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Plant Structures, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Plants, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:10748263-Water-Electrolyte Balance
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of aquaporins in cellular and whole plant water balance.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plant Biochemistry, Lund University, PO Box 117, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't