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SUBMITTER: Andrews S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2690706 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Andrews Simeon S Reichow Steve L SL Gonen Tamir T
IUBMB life 20080701 7
Aquaporins are a family of ubiquitous membrane proteins that form a pore for the permeation of water. Both electron and X-ray crystallography played major roles in determining the atomic structures of a number of aquaporins. This review focuses on electron crystallography, and its contribution to the field of aquaporin biology. We briefly discuss electron crystallography and the two-dimensional crystallization process. We describe features of aquaporins common to both electron and X-ray crystall ...[more]