The zebrafish genome encodes the largest vertebrate repertoire of functional aquaporins with dual paralogy and substrate specificities similar to mammals |
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| Authors: | Angèle Tingaud-Sequeira Magdalena Calusinska Roderick N Finn François Chauvigné Juanjo Lozano Joan Cerdà |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Laboratory of Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA)-Institut de Ciències del Mar,Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC),Barcelona,Spain;2.Génomique et Physiologie des Poissons,Université Bordeaux 1, UMR NuAGe,Talence,France;3.Center for Protein Engineering,University of Liège,Liège,Belgium;4.Department of Biology,University of Bergen, Bergen High Technology Center,Bergen,Norway;5.Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd),Barcelona,Spain |
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| Abstract: | Background Aquaporins are integral membrane proteins that facilitate the transport of water and small solutes across cell membranes. These proteins are vital for maintaining water homeostasis in living organisms. In mammals, thirteen aquaporins (AQP0-12) have been characterized, but in lower vertebrates, such as fish, the diversity, structure and substrate specificity of these membrane channel proteins are largely unknown. |
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