Aquaporins: Another piece in the osmotic puzzle

Osmolarity not only plays a key role in celluar homeostasis but also challenges cell survival. The molecular understanding of osmosis has not yet been completely achieved, and the discovery of aquaporins as molecular entities involved in water transport has caused osmosis to again become a focus of...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Alleva, K., Chara, O., Amodeo, G.
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2012
País:Argentina
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Repositório:Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:paperaa:paper_00145793_v586_n19_p2991_Alleva
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00145793_v586_n19_p2991_Alleva
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Aquaporin
Osmosis
Osmotic permeability
Phenomenological law
Water transport
aquaporin
bioinformatics
biophysics
brain edema
hydraulic permeability
lipid bilayer
membrane permeability
molecular interaction
nonhuman
nutrient uptake
osmosis
plant physiology
priority journal
protein function
protein structure
review
statistical analysis
transport kinetics
tumor growth
tumor vascularization
water transport
Animals
Aquaporins
Biophysical Phenomena
Cell Membrane Permeability
Computational Biology
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Models, Biological
Osmolar Concentration
Plant Proteins
Water
Descrição
Resumo:Osmolarity not only plays a key role in celluar homeostasis but also challenges cell survival. The molecular understanding of osmosis has not yet been completely achieved, and the discovery of aquaporins as molecular entities involved in water transport has caused osmosis to again become a focus of research. The main questions that need to be answered are the mechanism underlying the osmotic permeability coefficients and the extent to which aquaporins change our understanding of osmosis. Here, attempts to answer these questions are discussed. Critical aspects of the state of the state of knowledge on osmosis, a topic that has been studied since 19th century, are reviewed and integrated with the available information provided by in vivo, in vitro and in silico approaches. © 2012 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.