Plant aquaporins : from transport to signaling /: from transport to signaling. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: François Chaumont, Stephen D. Tyerman, editor.
• Editors: Chaumont, François; Tyerman, Stephen D
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Structural Basis of the Permeation Function of Plant Aquaporins; 1 Summary; 2 Aquaporins in Living Systems Including Plants; 2.1 Aquaporins Occur in All Kingdoms of Life; 2.2 Plant Aquaporin Sequences and Their Genome-Wide Identification; 2.3 Classification of Aquaporins; 3 Three-Dimensional Structures of Aquaporins; 3.1 Structural Information on Aquaporins Is Available from All Kingdoms of Life; 3.2 An Overall Architecture of Protomers; 3.3 A Circular Bundle and a Solute-Conducting Pore; 3.4 Cytoplasmic and Periplasmic Conical Vestibules. 3.5 Aquaporins Exist as Functional Tetramers4 A Structural Basis of Transport by Aquaporins; 4.1 Approaches to Measure Solute Transport Selectivity and Kinetic Parameters; 4.2 Solute Selectivity of Aquaporins; 4.3 Rates of Solute Transport and Mechanisms; 4.4 Dimensional Filtering and the Roles of Constrictions in Permeation of Solutes of Various Volumes; 4.5 Chemical Filtering of Solutes, Barriers for Ion or Proton Conductance Through the Pores of Monomers and Significance of NPA Signatures; 4.6 Ion Conductance Through a Central Pore of Tetramers. 4.7 Mutational Studies to Alter Transport Selectivity and Rates5 Gating Mechanisms of Aquaporins Induced by pH, Cation Binding and Phosphorylation or Lengths of Loops and Mutational Studies; 6 The Structural Knowledge of Aquaporins Has Strategic Significance in Agricultural Biotechnology, Nano-Ưbiotechnology and Environmental Sciences; References; Heteromerization of Plant Aquaporins; 1 Aquaporin Hetero-oligomerization; 2 Plant Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Proteins (PIP): The Paradigmatic Case for Hetero-oligomerization of Aquaporins. 3 Structure-Function Relationships in PIP Hetero-oligomerization3.1 Loop A; 3.2 Loop E; 3.3 Transmembrane Domains; 4 Co-expression of PIP: A Condition for Oligomerization; 5 Biological Relevance of PIP Hetero-oligomerization; 5.1 Trafficking; 5.2 Biological Activity and Substrate Specificity; 5.3 Proton-Sensing Regulation; 6 Concluding Remarks; References; Plant Aquaporin Trafficking; 1 Introduction; 1.1 PM Trafficking of PIPs; 1.1.1 ER-to-Golgi Trafficking of PIPs Dependent on Trafficking Signals and Heteromerization; 1.1.2 ER-to-Golgi Trafficking of Arabidopsis PIP2. 1 Dependent on Phosphorylation1.1.3 Downregulation of Arabidopsis PIP2s in Early Secretary Pathway; 1.1.4 PM Trafficking of PIPs Dependent on SNAREs and a Rab GTPase; 1.2 Dynamic Properties of PIPs; 1.2.1 Approaches Developed to Study the Lateral Diffusion of PIPs; 1.2.2 Approaches Developed to Study the Constitutive Cycling; 1.2.3 Stress-Induced Change of PIP Dynamics and Localization; 1.3 Polar Localization of Aquaporins in Plant Cells; 1.3.1 Polar Localization of Mammalian Aquaporins; 1.3.2 Polar Localization of Plant Aquaporins; 1.4 Trafficking of TIPs.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 572/.6962; 570; Life sciences; Aquaporins; Plant physiology; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry; Aquaporins; Plant physiology; Aquaporins; Life Sciences; Plant Physiology; Plant Biochemistry; Protein Science; Membrane Biology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Cytology; Botany & plant sciences; Proteins; Cellular biology (cytology); Biochemistry; Cell membranes; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Plant physiology; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319493954; 3319493957
• Related ISBNs: 9783319493930; 3319493930
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 16, 2017).
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