Comparative Genomics Reveals Novel Species and Insights into the Biotechnological Potential, Virulence, and Resistance of <i>Alcaligenes</i> by Francisnei Pedrosa-Silva, Thiago M. Venancio

“…Pan-GWAS analysis uncovered 389 species-associated genes, including cold shock proteins (e.g., <i>csp</i>A) and aquaporins (e.g., <i>aqp</i>Z) found exclusively in the water-isolated species, <i>Alcaligenes aquatilis</i>. …”
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Candidate Genes for Salt Tolerance in Forage Sorghum under Saline Conditions from Germination to Harvest Maturity by Shugao Fan, Jianmin Chen, Rongzhen Yang

“…Shoot water and carbon partitioning, for example, are dominated by genes from the aquaporins and SWEET families, respectively. The gibberellin (GA) family of genes is prevalent during pre-saline exposure seed dormancy breaking and early embryo development at post-saline exposure. …”
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Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators Regulate Alveolar Fluid Clearance during Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Qian Wang, Song-Fan Yan, Yu Hao, Sheng-Wei Jin

“…Results: Specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs), as the proinflammatory mediators, not only upregulated epithelial sodium channel, Na,K-ATPase, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), and aquaporins levels, but also improved Na,K-ATPase activity to promote AFC in ARDS. …”
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Ion channels in dry eye disease by Nikhil Ashok, Pooja Khamar, Sharon D'Souza, Marlies Gijs, Arkasubhra Ghosh, Swaminathan Sethu, Rohit Shetty

“…Hence, alterations in the expression and/or activity of about 33 types of ion channels that belong to voltage-gated channels, ligand-gated channels, mechanosensitive ion channel, aquaporins, chloride ion channel, sodium–potassium–chloride pumps or cotransporters have been investigated in the context of ocular surface health and DED in animal and/or human subjects. …”
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Halophytes of the Mediterranean Basin—Underutilized Species with the Potential to Be Nutritious Crops in the Scenario of the Climate Change by Agatha Agudelo, Micaela Carvajal, María del Carmen Martinez-Ballesta

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Increased expression of AQP 1 and AQP 5 in rat lungs ventilated with low tidal volume is time dependent. by Gustavo Fabregat, José García-de-la-Asunción, Benjamín Sarriá, Julio Cortijo, José De Andrés, Manuel Mata, Ernesto Pastor, Francisco Javier Belda

“…BACKGROUND AND GOALS: Mechanical ventilation (MV) can induce or worsen pulmonary oedema. Aquaporins (AQPs) facilitate the selective and rapid bi-directional movement of water. …”
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Cold Atmospheric Plasma and Plasma-Activated Medium Trigger RONS-Based Tumor Cell Apoptosis by Georg Bauer, Dominika Sersenová, David B. Graves, Zdenko Machala

“…At the site of inactivated catalase, cell-generated H2O2 enters the cell via aquaporins, depletes glutathione and thus abrogates the cell’s protection towards lipid peroxidation. …”
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli remodels host endosomes to promote endocytic turnover and breakdown of surface polarity. by Ephrem G Kassa, Efrat Zlotkin-Rivkin, Gil Friedman, Rachana P Ramachandran, Naomi Melamed-Book, Aryeh M Weiss, Michael Belenky, Dana Reichmann, William Breuer, Ritesh Ranjan Pal, Ilan Rosenshine, Lynne A Lapierre, James R Goldenring, Benjamin Aroeti

“…Protein cargoes, e.g. transferrin receptors, β1 integrins and aquaporins, which exploit the endocytic pathways mediated by these machineries, were also found to be recruited to these sites. …”
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Human AQP5 plays a role in the progression of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). by Young Kwang Chae, Sung Koo Kang, Myoung Sook Kim, Janghee Woo, Juna Lee, Steven Chang, Dong-Wook Kim, Myungshin Kim, Seonyang Park, Inho Kim, Bhumsuk Keam, Jiyoung Rhee, Nam Hee Koo, Gyeongsin Park, Soo-Hyun Kim, Se-Eun Jang, Il-Young Kweon, David Sidransky, Chulso Moon

“…Aquaporins (AQPs) have previously been associated with increased expression in solid tumors. …”
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Algal polysaccharides–Selenium nanoparticles regulate the uptake and distribution of selenium in rice plants by Chunmei Yang, Chaoxin Wang, Zaid Khan, Songpo Duan, Zhiming Li, Hong Shen

“…The root uptake of APS-SeNPs was inhibited by AgNO3 (64.81%–79.09%) and carbonyl cyanide 3-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP; 19.83%–29.03%), indicating that the uptake of APS-SeNPs by rice roots is mainly via aquaporins and is also affected by metabolic activity. …”
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Heterogeneous root zone salinity mitigates salt injury to Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench in a split-root system. by Huawen Zhang, Runfeng Wang, Hailian Wang, Bin Liu, Mengping Xu, Yan'an Guan, Yanbing Yang, Ling Qin, Erying Chen, Feifei Li, Ruidong Huang, Yufei Zhou

“…Similarly, the expression of the majority of aquaporins and essential mineral transporters was upregulated in the NaCl-free root side in the nonuniform salinity treatment, whereas abscisic acid (ABA)-related and salt stress-responsive TF transcripts were more abundant in the high-saline root side in the nonuniform salinity treatment. …”
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Intestinal Fluid Permeability in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) Is Affected by Dietary Protein Source. by Haibin Hu, Trond M Kortner, Karina Gajardo, Elvis Chikwati, John Tinsley, Åshild Krogdahl

“…Altered DI expression of a battery of genes encoding aquaporins, ion transporters, tight junction and adherens junction proteins suggested reduced transcellular transport of water as well as a tightening of the junction barrier in fish fed the SBMWG diet, which may explain the observed higher fecal water content and plasma osmolality. …”
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Algal MIPs, high diversity and conserved motifs by Johanson Urban, Danielson Jonas ÅH, Anderberg Hanna I

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Major intrinsic proteins (MIPs) also named aquaporins form channels facilitating the passive transport of water and other small polar molecules across membranes. …”
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Osmotic gradients and transretinal water flow—a quantitative elemental microanalytical study of frozen hydrated chick eyes by Alan T. Marshall, Sheila G. Crewther

“…As expected, the greatest difference in resultant osmotic concentration gradients, [calculated using the combined concentrations of sodium (Na) and potassium (K)] and tissue hydration [oxygen-defined water concentration], occurs in the outer retina and, in particular, in the RPE where the apical and basal membranes are characterized by numerous bioenergetically active, osmoregulating ion transport mechanisms, aquaporins, and chloride (Cl) channels. Our results also demonstrate that the high intracellular Na+ and K+ concentrations in the apical region of the RPE are partially derived from the melanosomes. …”
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Osmolarity-regulated swelling initiates egg activation in Drosophila by Anna H. York-Andersen, Benjamin W. Wood, Elise L. Wilby, Alexander S. Berry, Timothy T. Weil

“…We show that the swelling process is regulated by the conserved osmoregulatory channels, aquaporins and DEGenerin/Epithelial Na+ channels. Furthermore, through pharmacological and genetic disruption, we reveal a concentration-dependent requirement of transient receptor potential M channels to transport calcium, most probably from the perivitelline space, across the plasma membrane into the mature oocyte. …”
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Halophytes: Potential Resources for Salt Stress Tolerance Genes and Promoters by Avinash Mishra, Avinash Mishra, Bhakti Tanna, Bhakti Tanna

“…Several known genes like antiporters (NHX, SOS, HKT, VTPase), ion channels (Cl−, Ca2+, aquaporins), antioxidant encoding genes (APX, CAT, GST, BADH, SOD) and some novel genes such as USP, SDR1, SRP etc. were isolated from halophytes and explored for developing stress tolerance in the crop plants (glycophytes). …”
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Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and intracranial pressure elevation in neurological diseases by Steven William Bothwell, Damir Janigro, Adjanie Patabendige

“…Emerging evidence suggests that pharmacological targeting of aquaporins, transient receptor potential vanilloid type 4 (TRPV4), and the Na+–K+–2Cl− cotransporter (NKCC1) merit further investigation as potential targets in neurological diseases involving impaired brain fluid dynamics and elevated ICP.…”
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Transcriptomic and co-expression network analyses on diverse wheat landraces identifies candidate master regulators of the response to early drought by Liam J. Barratt, Isaac J. Reynolds, Sara Franco Ortega, Andrea L. Harper

“…But as the timing of periods of drought stress become increasingly unpredictable, a more complete understanding of the response to drought during early development is also needed.MethodsHere, we utilized the YoGI landrace panel to identify 10,199 genes which were differentially expressed under early drought stress, before weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was used to construct a co-expression network and identify hub genes in modules particularly associated with the early drought response.ResultsOf these hub genes, two stood out as novel candidate master regulators of the early drought response – one as an activator (TaDHN4-D1; TraesCS5D02G379200) and the other as a repressor (uncharacterised gene; TraesCS3D02G361500).DiscussionAs well as appearing to coordinate the transcriptional early drought response, we propose that these hub genes may be able to regulate the physiological early drought response due to potential control over the expression of members of gene families well-known for their involvement in the drought response in many plant species, namely dehydrins and aquaporins, as well as other genes seemingly involved in key processes such as, stomatal opening, stomatal closing, stomatal morphogenesis and stress hormone signalling.…”
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Osmosensitivity of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 is synergistically enhanced by distinct activating stimuli such as temperature and protons. by Eri Nishihara, Takeshi Y Hiyama, Masaharu Noda

“…Of note, HgCl(2), which blocks aquaporins and inhibits cell-volume changes, significantly reduced the osmosensitive response. …”
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Soil Water Deficit Reduced Root Hydraulic Conductivity of Common Reed (<i>Phragmites australis</i>) by Ruiqing Wang, Zhenming Zhang, Haoyue Wang, Yinglong Chen, Mingxiang Zhang

“…A decrease in soil moisture content significantly influenced root morphological and anatomical characteristics, which, in turn, altered <i>Lp_r</i>, and the transcriptome results suggest that this may be associated with the variation in the expression of abscisic acid (ABA) and aquaporins (AQPs) genes. Our initial findings address a gap in our understanding of reed hydraulics, offering fresh theoretical insights into how herbaceous plants respond to external stressors.…”
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