Glucose transporters serve as water channels.
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Glucose transporters serve as water channels.
Water traverses the plasma membranes of some eukaryotic cells faster than can be explained by the water permeability of their lipid bilayers. This has led to a search for a water channel. Our previous work identified glucose transporters as candidates for such a channel. We report here that Xenopus laevis oocytes injected with mRNA encoding the brain/Hep G2, adult skeletal muscle/adipocyte, or ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.8.3244