Sentences with phrase «water channel proteins»

This work builds on more than a decade of research conducted by the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrea Yool on the water channel proteins known as «aquaporins.»

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The gene aquaporin - 1 encodes channel - forming integral protein (CHIP), a member of a large family of water transporters found throughout nature.

From a desire to develop breakthrough technologies for water filtration and purification, researchers have developed membranes with artificial channels inspired by the proteins that form the pores in biological membranes: aquaporins.

Protein channels in the cell's membrane release the excess water, preventing catastrophic expansion and bursting of the cell.

The entering water then tilts the protein helix H2, which eventually triggers a protein - traversing open ion channel.

It is clear, however, that volatile anesthetics, which are more soluble in lipids than in water, primarily affect the function of ion channel and neurotransmitter receptor proteins in the membranes of nerve cells, which are lipid environments.

For example, the aquaporin protein - mediated flow of water across biological cell membranes is down to a balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions with channel surfaces.

The rest of the protein ends up in the water channel's interior, and the proteins, once correctly reconstituted, can then start to crystallise.

They found that when the potassium channel is open, water molecules quickly bind to tiny cavities within the protein structure, where they block the channel in a state that prevents the passage of ions.

So we went after this, and now of course that protein is known as aquaporin 1, the first defined water channel; a large family of hundreds of different water channels and different organisms — these green plants around us here have aquaporins in their rootlets.

And by sorting things out and talking to colleagues — very important talking to colleagues, because it was the discussion with another colleague John Parker at the University of North Carolina that first turned on the lights that this new protein might be the long - sought water channel.

The next step, Chen said, is to build biomimetic membranes by incorporating natural membrane proteins or other synthetic water channels such as carbon nanotubes into these sheet matrices.

September 7, 2015 Synthetic proteins help solve structure of the fluoride ion channel Although present almost everywhere — food, soil, toothpaste and especially tap water — , the fluoride ion is highly toxic to microorganisms and cells.