Aquaporin-6

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AQP6
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases AQP6 , AQP2L, KID, aquaporin 6
External IDs OMIM: 601383; MGI: 1341204; HomoloGene: 20399; GeneCards: AQP6; OMA:AQP6 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_053286
NM_001652

NM_175087

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001643

NP_780296

Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 49.97 – 49.98 Mb Chr 15: 99.5 – 99.5 Mb
PubMed search [3] [4]
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Aquaporin-6, (AQP-6) also known as kidney-specific aquaporin is a protein in humans that is encoded by the AQP6 gene. [5]

Contents

The protein encoded by this gene is an aquaporin protein, which functions as a water channel in cells. Aquaporins are a family of small integral membrane proteins related to the major intrinsic protein (MIP or AQP0). This protein is specific for the kidney. This gene and related family members AQP0, AQP2, and AQP5 reside in a cluster on chromosome 12q13. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000086159 Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000043144 Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: Aquaporin 6, kidney specific" . Retrieved 2012-04-10.

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