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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2009

Heterologous expression of tulip petal plasma membrane aquaporins in Pichia pastoris for water channel analysis.

Abul Kalam Azad, Yoshihiro Sawa, Takahiro Ishikawa, Hitoshi Shibata

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Abul Kalam AzadDepartment of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Shimane 690-8504, Japan.
Yoshihiro Sawa
Takahiro Ishikawa
Hitoshi Shibata
University of Shimane · JPShahjalal University of Science and Technology · BDShimane University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water channels formed by aquaporins (AQPs) play an important role in the control of water homeostasis in individual cells and in multicellular organisms. Plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (PIPs) constitute a subclass of plant AQPs. TgPIP2;1 and TgPIP2;2 from tulip petals are members of the PIP family. In this study, we overexpressed TgPIP2;1 and TgPIP2;2 in Pichia pastoris and monitored their water channel activity (WCA) either by an in vivo spheroplast-bursting assay performed after hypo-osmotic shock or by growth assay. Osmolarity, pH, and inhibitors of AQPs, protein kinases (PKs), and protein phosphatases (PPs) affect the WCA of heterologous AQPs in this expression system. The WCA of TgPIP2;2-expressing spheroplasts was affected by inhibitors of PKs and PPs, which indicates that the water channel of this homologue is regulated by phosphorylation in P. pastoris. From the results reported herein, we suggest that P. pastoris can be employed as a heterologous expression system to assay the WCA of PIPs and to monitor the AQP-mediated channel gating mechanism, and it can be developed to screen inhibitors/effectors of PIPs.

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AquaporinsGene ExpressionHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationOsmotic PressurePhosphoprotein PhosphatasesPichiaPlant ProteinsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtein KinasesRecombinant ProteinsSpheroplastsTulipaAquaporinsPhosphoprotein PhosphatasesPlant ProteinsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtein KinasesRecombinant Proteins

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PMID19251885
PMCPMC2681690
OpenAlexW2159538878

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