Structure and Function of Water Channels

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Struct Biol

Date 2002 Aug 7

PMID 12163075

Citations 55

Authors

Yoshinori Fujiyoshi

Kaoru Mitsuoka

Bert L de Groot

Ansgar Philippsen

Helmut Grubmuller

Peter Agre

Andreas Engel

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Abstract

All aquaporins are efficient water transporters, while sustaining strict selectivity, even against protons, thereby maintaining the proton gradient across the cell membrane. Recently solved structures of these membrane channels have helped us to understand this remarkable property.

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