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aquaporin-8; AQP-8 (AQP8)

Function: - forms a water-specific channel - mercury-sensitive - not permeable to glycerol or urea Structure: - aquaporins contain two tandem repeats each containing 3 membrane-spanning domains & a pore-forming loop with the signature motif Asn-Pro-Ala (NPA) - belongs to the MIP/aquaporin (TC 1.A.8) family Compartment: membrane Expression: expressed only in pancreas & colon

General

aquaporin glycoprotein transmembrane 6 protein

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 261 aa MW = 27 kD COMPARTMENT: plasma membrane MOTIF: cytoplasmic domain {1-36} transmembrane domain {37-57} exoplasmic loop {58-84} MOTIF: N-glycosylation site {N59} transmembrane domain {85-105} MOTIF: peptide motif {92-94} cytoplasmic loop {106-107} transmembrane domain {108-128} exoplasmic loop {129-156} MOTIF: N-glycosylation site {N139} transmembrane domain {157-177} cytoplasmic loop {178-183} transmembrane domain {184-204} exoplasmic loop {205-228} MOTIF: peptide motif {210-212} transmembrane domain {229-249} cytoplasmic domain {250-261}

Database Correlations

OMIM 603750 UniProt O94778 Pfam PF00230 Entrez Gene 343 Kegg hsa:343

References

UniProt :accession O94778