Aquaporins

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yang, Baoxue (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 969
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Pharmacology.; Proteins.; Cell membranes.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Protein Science.; Human Physiology.; Membrane Biology.

This book provides a state-of-the-art report on our current understanding of aquaporins and the future direction of the field. Aquaporins (AQPs) are a group of water-channel proteins that are specifically permeable to water and other small molecules, such as glycerol and urea. To date thirteen water...