AQP9
Aquaporin-9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AQP9 gene.[1]
The aquaporins/major intrinsic protein are a family of water-selective membrane channels. Aquaporin 9 has greater sequence similarity with AQP3 and AQP7 and they may be a subfamily. Aquaporin 9 allows passage of a wide variety of noncharged solutes. AQP9 stimulates urea transport and osmotic water permeability; there are contradicting reports about its role in providing glycerol permeability. Aquaporin 9 may also have some role in specialized leukocyte functions such as immunological response and bactericidal activity.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
- Ishibashi K, Kuwahara M, Gu Y, et al. (1998). “Cloning and functional expression of a new aquaporin (AQP9) abundantly expressed in the peripheral leukocytes permeable to water and urea, but not to glycerol”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 244 (1): 268–74. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1998.8252. PMID 9514918.
- Tsukaguchi H, Shayakul C, Berger UV, et al. (1998). “Molecular characterization of a broad selectivity neutral solute channel”. J. Biol. Chem. 273 (38): 24737–43. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.38.24737. PMID 9733774.
- Tsukaguchi H, Weremowicz S, Morton CC, Hediger MA (1999). “Functional and molecular characterization of the human neutral solute channel aquaporin-9”. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (5 Pt 2): F685–96. PMID 10564231.
- Pastor-Soler N, Bagnis C, Sabolic I, et al. (2001). “Aquaporin 9 expression along the male reproductive tract”. Biol. Reprod. 65 (2): 384–93. doi:10.1095/biolreprod65.2.384. PMID 11466204.
- Damiano A, Zotta E, Goldstein J, et al. (2001). “Water channel proteins AQP3 and AQP9 are present in syncytiotrophoblast of human term placenta”. Placenta. 22 (8–9): 776–81. doi:10.1053/plac.2001.0717. PMID 11597198.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Okada S, Misaka T, Matsumoto I, et al. (2003). “Aquaporin-9 is expressed in a mucus-secreting goblet cell subset in the small intestine”. FEBS Lett. 540 (1–3): 157–62. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(03)00256-4. PMID 12681500.
- Bhattacharjee H, Carbrey J, Rosen BP, Mukhopadhyay R (2004). “Drug uptake and pharmacological modulation of drug sensitivity in leukemia by AQP9”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 322 (3): 836–41. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.002. PMID 15336539.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Wang S, Chen J, Beall M, et al. (2005). “Expression of aquaporin 9 in human chorioamniotic membranes and placenta”. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 191 (6): 2160–7. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2004.05.089. PMID 15592307.
- Damiano AE, Zotta E, Ibarra C (2006). “Functional and molecular expression of AQP9 channel and UT-A transporter in normal and preeclamptic human placentas”. Placenta. 27 (11–12): 1073–81. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2005.11.014. PMID 16480766.
- Olsen JV, Blagoev B, Gnad F, et al. (2006). “Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks”. Cell. 127 (3): 635–48. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026. PMID 17081983.
- Loitto VM, Huang C, Sigal YJ, Jacobson K (2007). “Filopodia are induced by aquaporin-9 expression”. Exp. Cell Res. 313 (7): 1295–306. doi:10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.01.023. PMID 17346701.
- Warth A, Mittelbronn M, Hülper P, et al. (2007). “Expression of the water channel protein aquaporin-9 in malignant brain tumors”. Appl. Immunohistochem. Mol. Morphol. 15 (2): 193–8. doi:10.1097/01.pai.0000213110.05108.e9. PMID 17525633.
External links
External links
- AQP9+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Human AQP9 genome location and AQP9 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.
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