水通道蛋白1-C末端肽段/GST融合蛋白的原核表达(简报)

水通道蛋白(Aquaporin,AQP)是一类选择性高效转运水分子的细胞膜通道蛋白,广泛存在于原核和真核生物细胞的细胞膜上,主要介导自由水分子的被动跨膜转运,对保持细胞内外液环境的稳态平衡起着重要的作用.     

牦牛水通道蛋白AQP1和AQP3基因克隆及在不同组织中表达和定位

水通道蛋白(Aquaporin,AQP)广泛存在于生物体的各组织部位,影响着生物体水代谢的过程.为进一步研究水通道蛋白1(AQP1)和水通道蛋白3(AQP3)生物学功能,本文对牦牛(Bos grunniens)不同组织中 AQP1和AQP3基因的表达与定位进行了研究.采用PCR方法扩增牦牛AQP1和AQP3基因,对其序...     

TRPV4参与低渗对水通道蛋白-5表达的调节

水通道蛋白-5（aquapofin-5,AQP5）在角膜、多种外分泌腺和Ⅰ型肺上皮细胞表达,在调节细胞膜对水分子的通透性中发挥重要作用。已有研究表明TNF-α、cAMP、腺病毒感染和高渗可以调节AQP5表达。但是,细胞外低渗对于AQP5表达的影响尚不清楚。     

人胸膜间皮细胞水通道蛋白1～10 mRNA的表达

体外培养人胸膜间皮细胞(HPMC),检测人胸膜间皮细胞水通道蛋白1～10mRNA的表达,探讨其在胸腔内液体平衡中的意义.从胸腔积液中分离人胸膜间皮细胞,进行培养,用形态学和免疫组化染色进行细胞鉴定.用RT-PCR检测水通道蛋白1～10(AQP1～10)mRNA在人胸膜间皮细胞上的表达.成功建立人胸膜间皮细胞体外培养模型,鉴定证实为间皮细胞,人胸膜间皮细胞上AQP1～10mRNA均有表达,AQP1、AQP9、AQP10表达丰富.人胸膜间皮细胞存在AQP1～10mRNA的表达,结合已知水通道蛋白的功能,证实人胸膜间皮细胞参于胸腔内液体转运.     

植物水通道蛋白生理功能的研究进展

自1992年第一个水通道蛋白AQP1被人们认识以来,从植物中分离得到了大量AQPs基因。AQPs在植物体内形成选择性运输水及一些小分子溶质和气体的膜通道,参与介导多个植物生长发育的生理活动,如细胞伸长、气孔运动、种子发育、开花繁殖和逆境胁迫等。就植物水通道蛋白的生理功能进行概述。     

水通道蛋白4与脑水肿研究进展

水通道蛋白4(AQP4)是膜水通道蛋白家族的一员,在脑组织中高表达,是控制水进出脑组织的通道。近年来发现,AQP4的功能和表达与脑水肿密切相关。同时脑水肿又是和脑疾病治疗密切相关的病理过程,对两者的研究或许可以为我们带来更多的临床治疗新思路。本文综述了AQP4的结构、表达、调控与功能以及AQP4与脑水肿关系的研究进展。     

水通道蛋白在塔里木兔肺组织中的表达和作用

通过检测塔里木兔Lepus yarcandensis肺脏中水通道蛋白(aquaporin,AQP)1、AQP3及AQP4的表达和分布情况,以探讨水通道蛋白在干旱区动物水液代谢中的作用。采用常规HE染色观察肺组织学结构,采用免疫组织化学检测AQP1、AQP3及AQP4在肺脏中的分布位置及表达。结果表明,AQP1分布在支气管上皮细胞,肺泡间质毛细血管内皮细胞以及肺泡上皮(Ⅰ、Ⅱ型)细胞。AQP3分布在小气管上皮顶质膜和大气道上皮细胞基底膜。AQP4分布在小气管和大气道上皮细胞基底膜。AQP1、AQP3及AQP4在肺中表达的强弱关系为AQP1>AQP4>AQP3。这些结果说明,水通道蛋白在塔里木兔肺泡腔、肺组织间隙及毛细血管腔之间水的转运中很可能起着很重要的作用。同时对吸入空气的湿润和呼出气体中水分的重吸收也具有重要意义。     

肺水通道蛋白1,5与肺损伤的研究进展

正水通道蛋白(AQPs)是一种可快速完成水分子细胞内外跨膜转运的跨膜蛋白家族,对维持细胞内外水平衡有重要作用。肺损伤是临床上常见危重病症,死亡率高。有大量研究证实,水通道蛋白(AQPs)与肺水清除密切相关,其中AQP1,5在肺水转运中尤为重要,这对近年来国内外关于肺内液体跨膜转运及细胞内外环境平衡调节机制的研究及临床肺损伤的认识和治疗具有重要临床意义。作者就肺水通     

水通道蛋白与脑部疾病

水通道蛋白是参与跨细胞水转运的膜通道蛋白家族成员,广泛存在于机体组织细胞中,参与水的分泌与吸收。近年来脑部的水通道蛋白成为研究热点。水通道蛋白在脑中的主要生理功能是参与调节脑内渗透压及电解质的平衡,维持脑脊液的分泌及平衡,并与各种脑部疾病的病理过程及其所造成的水肿密切相关。调控水通道蛋白的表达可以减轻各种脑部疾病造成的病理损伤和阻止脑水肿的形成,这为临床治疗脑部疾病提供了新的思路和方法。本文就水通道蛋白与脑部疾病的关系的研究进展作一综述。     

塔里木兔胰腺水通道蛋白的表达和作用

通过检测塔里木兔(Lepus yarcandensis)胰腺中水通道蛋白（aquaporin,AQP）1和4的表达和分布情况,以探讨水通道蛋白在塔里木兔适应干旱缺水环境中的作用,采用常规 H.E.染色观察塔里木兔胰腺组织学结构,采用免疫组织化学检测AQP1和AQP4在胰腺中的分布位置及表达,并与家兔进行比较。结果显示,AQP1在微血管内皮细胞,血细胞,泡心细胞和小叶内导管上皮细胞均有表达;AQP4在小叶间导管基底膜和胰岛细胞膜上有表达。与家兔相比,AQP1 在塔里木兔胰腺外分泌部的表达较弱,而在小叶内导管的表达较强;AQP4在塔里木兔胰腺内分泌部的表达较低。以上结果说明,AQP1在塔里木兔胰腺小叶内导管的表达上调,推测可能加强了浓缩胰液的能力,以尽量保住体内的水分,是塔里木兔对干旱缺水环境的适应性调节。与家兔相比,塔里木兔胰腺AQP1和AQP4的表达均较低,说明塔里木兔胰腺水液代谢能力比家兔低,这可能与塔里木兔所食食物营养匮乏有关。     

Aquaporin water channels and lung physiology

Fluid transport across epithelial and endothelial barriers occurs in the neonatal and adult lungs. Biophysical measurements in the intact lung and cell isolates have indicated that osmotic water permeability is exceptionally high across alveolar epithelia and endothelia and moderately high across airway epithelia. This review is focused on the role of membrane water-transporting proteins, the aquaporins (AQPs), in high lung water permeability and lung physiology. The lung expresses several AQPs: AQP1 in microvascular endothelia, AQP3 in large airways, AQP4 in large- and small-airway epithelia, and AQP5 in type I alveolar epithelial cells. Lung phenotype analysis of transgenic mice lacking each of these AQPs has been informative. Osmotically driven water permeability between the air space and capillary compartments is reduced approximately 10-fold by deletion of AQP1 or AQP5 and reduced even more by deletion of AQP1 and AQP4 or AQP1 and AQP5 together. AQP1 deletion greatly reduces osmotically driven water transport across alveolar capillaries but has only a minor effect on hydrostatic lung filtration, which primarily involves paracellular water movement. However, despite the major role of AQPs in lung osmotic water permeabilities, AQP deletion has little or no effect on physiologically important lung functions, such as alveolar fluid clearance in adult and neonatal lung, and edema accumulation after lung injury. Although AQPs play a major role in renal and central nervous system physiology, the data to date on AQP knockout mice do not support an important role of high lung water permeabilities or AQPs in lung physiology. However, there remain unresolved questions about possible non-water-transporting roles of AQPs and about the role of AQPs in airway physiology, pleural fluid dynamics, and edema after lung infection.     

Cellular and subcellular localization of aquaporins 1, 3, 8, and 9 in amniotic membranes during pregnancy in mice

The amniotic membrane encloses the amniotic fluid and plays roles in the regulation of amniotic fluid flux through the intramembranous pathway during pregnancy. Aquaporins (AQPs) 1, 3, 8, and 9 are expressed in amniotic membranes. AQPs are water channel proteins that facilitate the rapid flux of water or small molecules across the plasma membrane. Recently, additional roles of AQPs in facilitating cell migration, proliferation, and apoptosis have been suggested, with AQPs being distributed in the appropriate subcellular regions for their functions. The cellular and subcellular distributions of AQPs in the amniotic membrane however remain unclear. We have examined the cellular and subcellular localization of AQPs in amniotic membranes during pregnancy in mice. After embryonic day 12 (E12), AQP1 was distributed in the plasma membrane of finely branched cell processes in the amniotic fibroblasts. AQP3 was present in both epithelial cells and fibroblasts between E10 and E12. The distribution of AQP3 in the epithelial cells dynamically changed as follows: at E14 in the lateral membrane and apical junction; at E16 in the lateral membrane alone; at E17 in the lateral membrane and cytoplasm. AQP8 was expressed in the epithelial cells and complementarily localized in the apical junction and the lateral membrane. AQP9 was detected only in the apoptotic cells of the epithelium. These cellular and subcellular localizations of amniotic AQPs indicate that each AQP plays distinct functional roles, such as in water and urea transport, cell migration, cell proliferation, and apoptosis, for amniotic fluid homeostasis or tissue remodeling of amniotic membranes.     

The evolutionary aspects of aquaporin family

Aquaporins (AQPs) were originally identified as channels facilitating water transport across the plasma membrane. They have a pair of highly conserved signature sequences, asparagine-proline-alanine (NPA) boxes, to form a pore. However, some have little conserved amino acid sequences around the NPA boxes unclassifiable to two previous AQP subfamilies, classical AQPs and aquaglyceroporins. These will be called unorthodox AQPs in this review. Interestingly, these unorthodox AQPs have a highly conserved cysteine residue downstream of the second NPA box. AQPs also have a diversity of functions: some related to water transport such as fluid secretion, fluid absorption, and cell volume regulation, and the others not directly related to water transport such as cell adhesion, cell migration, cell proliferation, and cell differentiation. Some AQPs even permeate nonionic small molecules, ions, metals, and possibly gasses. AQP gene disruption studies have revealed their physiological roles: water transport in the kidney and exocrine glands, glycerol transport in fat metabolism and in skin moisture, and nutrient uptakes in plants. Furthermore, AQPs are also present at intracellular organelles, including tonoplasts, mitochondria, and the endoplasmic reticulum. This review focuses on the evolutionary aspects of AQPs from bacteria to humans in view of the structural and functional diversities of AQPs.     

Aquaporin proteins in murine trophectoderm mediate transepithelial water movements during cavitation

Mammalian blastocyst formation is dependent on establishment of trophectoderm (TE) ion and fluid transport mechanisms. We have examined the expression and function of aquaporin (AQP) water channels during murine preimplantation development. AQP 3, 8, and 9 proteins demonstrated cell margin-associated staining starting at the 8-cell (AQP 9) or compacted morula (AQP 3 and 8) stages. In blastocysts, AQP 3 and 8 were detected in the basolateral membrane domains of the trophectoderm, while AQP3 was also observed in cell margins of all inner cell mass (ICM) cells. In contrast, AQP 9 was predominantly observed within the apical membrane domains of the TE. Murine blastocysts exposed to hyperosmotic culture media (1800 mOsm; 10% glycerol) demonstrated a rapid volume decrease followed by recovery to approximately 80% of initial volume over 5 min. Treatment of blastocysts with p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonic acid (pCMPS, > or =100 microM) for 5 min significantly impaired (P < 0.05) volume recovery, indicating the involvement of AQPs in fluid transport across the TE. Blastocysts exposure to an 1800-mOsm sucrose/KSOMaa solution did not demonstrate volume recovery as observed following treatment with glycerol containing medium, indicating glycerol permeability via AQPs 3 and 9. These findings support the hypothesis that aquaporins mediate trans-trophectodermal water movements during cavitation.     

Prediction of Aquaporin Function by Integrating Evolutionary and Functional Analyses

Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of channel proteins, which transport water and/or small solutes across cell membranes. AQPs are present in Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea. The classical AQP evolution paradigm explains the inconsistent phylogenetic trees by multiple transfer events and emphasizes that the assignment of orthologous AQPs is not possible, making it difficult to integrate functional information. Recently, a novel phylogenetic framework of eukaryotic AQP evolution showed congruence between eukaryotic AQPs and organismal trees identifying 32 orthologous clusters in plants and animals (Soto et al. Gene 503:165–176, 2012). In this article, we discuss in depth the methodological strength, the ability to predict functionality and the AQP community perception about the different paradigms of AQP evolution. Moreover, we show an updated review of AQPs transport functions in association with phylogenetic analyses. Finally, we discuss the possible effect of AQP data integration in the understanding of water and solute transport in eukaryotic cells.     

Lung edema clearance: 20 years of progress: invited review: role of aquaporin water channels in fluid transport in lung and airways.

Water transport across epithelial and endothelial barriers in bronchopulmonary tissues occurs during airway hydration, alveolar fluid transport, and submucosal gland secretion. Many of the tissues involved in these processes are highly water permeable and express aquaporin (AQP) water channels. AQP1 is expressed in microvascular endothelia throughout the lung and airways, AQP3 in epithelia in large airways, AQP4 in epithelia throughout the airways, and AQP5 in type I alveolar epithelial cells and submucosal gland acinar cells. The expression of some of these AQPs increases near the time of birth and is regulated by growth factors, inflammation, and osmotic stress. Transgenic mouse models of AQP deletion have provided information about their physiological role. In lung, AQP1 and AQP5 provide the principal route for osmotically driven water transport; however, alveolar fluid clearance in the neonatal and adult lung is not affected by AQP deletion nor is lung CO(2) transport or fluid accumulation in experimental models of lung injury. In the airways, AQP3 and AQP4 facilitate water transport; however, airway hydration, regulation of the airway surface liquid layer, and isosmolar fluid absorption are not impaired by AQP deletion. In contrast to these negative findings, AQP5 deletion in submucosal glands in upper airways reduced fluid secretion and increased protein content by greater than twofold. Thus, although AQPs play a major physiological role outside of the airways and lung, AQPs appear to be important mainly in airway submucosal gland function. The substantially slower rates of fluid transport in airways, pleura, and lung compared with renal and some secretory epithelia may account for the apparent lack of functional significance of AQPs at these sites. However, the possibility remains that AQPs may play a role in lung physiology under conditions of stress and/or injury not yet tested or in functions unrelated to transepithelial fluid transport.     

Aquaporin Trafficking in Plant Cells: An Emerging Membrane‐Protein Model

Aquaporins (AQPs) are channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water and small solutes across biological membranes. In plants, AQPs exhibit a high multiplicity of isoforms in relation to a high diversity of sub‐cellular localizations, at the plasma membrane (PM) and in various intracellular compartments. Some members also exhibit a dual localization in distinct cell compartments, whereas others show polarized or domain‐specific expression at the PM or tonoplast, respectively. A diversity of mechanisms controlling the routing of newly synthesized AQPs towards their destination membranes and involving diacidic motifs, phosphorylation or tetramer assembly is being uncovered. Recent approaches using single particle tracking, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching have, in combination with pharmacological interference, stressed the peculiarities of AQP sub‐cellular dynamics in environmentally challenging conditions. A role for clathrin and sterol‐rich domains in cell surface dynamics and endocytosis of PM AQPs was uncovered. These recent advances provide deep insights into the cellular mechanisms of water transport regulation in plants. They also point to AQPs as an emerging model for studying the sub‐cellular dynamics of plant membrane proteins .     

Roles of aquaporins in the brain

It is now over 10 years ago that aquaporin 1 (AQP1) was discovered and cloned from the red blood cells, and in 2003 the Nobel price in Chemistry was awarded to Pr. Peter Agre for his work on AQPs, highlighting the importance of these proteins in life sciences. AQPs are water channels. To date this protein family is composed of 11 sub-types in mammalians. Three main AQPs described in the mammalian brain are AQP1, AQP4 and AQP9. Several recent studies have shown that these channels are implicated in numerous physiological functions. AQP1 has a role in cerebrospinal fluid formation, whereas AQP4 is involved in water homeostasis and extracellular osmotic pressure in brain parenchyma. AQP4 seems also to have an important function in oedema formation after brain trauma or brain ischemia. AQP9 is implicated in brain energy metabolism. The level of expression of each AQP is highly regulated. After a trauma or an ischemia perturbation of the central nervous system, the level of expression of each AQP is differentially modified, resulting in facilitating oedema formation. At present, the exact role of each AQP is not yet determined. A better understanding of the mechanisms of AQP regulation should permit the development of new pharmacological strategies to prevent oedema formation. AQP9 has been recently specifically detected in the catecholaminergic neurons of the brain. This new result strengthens the hypothesis that the AQPs are not only water channels, but that some AQPs may play a role in energy metabolism as metabolite channels.