Plant Aquaporins
From Transport to Signaling
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Beschreibung
Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the diffusion of water and small uncharged solutes across cellular membranes. Plant aquaporins form a large family of highly divergent proteins that are involved in many different physiological processes. This book will summarize the recent advances regarding plant aquaporins, their phylogeny, structure, substrate specificity, mechanisms of regulation and roles in various important physiological processes related to the control of water flow and small solute distribution at the cell, tissue and plant level in an ever-changing environment.
Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the diffusion of water and small uncharged solutes across cellular membranes. Plant aquaporins form a large family of highly divergent proteins that are involved in many different physiological processes. This book will summarize the recent advances regarding plant aquaporins, their phylogeny, structure, substrate specificity, mechanisms of regulation and roles in various important physiological processes related to the control of water flow and small solute distribution at the cell, tissue and plant level in an ever-changing environment.
Timely reference summarizing current research on aquaporins Provides insights into the mechanisms by which aquaporins regulate plant water relations Explores unsuspected physiological roles of aquaporins unrelated to water transport Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
François Chaumont
Themen in »Plant Aquaporins«
major intrinsic proteins (MIP) membrane proteins plasma membrane pore vacuolar membrane water channel water transport