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Facts about Aquaporin-9.
Also permeable to urea and glycerol. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | AQP9 |
| Uniprot: | O43315 |
| Entrez: | 366 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| MIP/aquaporin (TC 1.A.8) family |

AQP-9; Aquaglyceroporin-9; aquaporin 9; aquaporin-9; HsT17287; Small solute channel 1; SSC1aquaglyceroporin-9
Mass (kDA):
31.431 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 15q21.3 |
| Sequence: | 15; NC_000015.10 (58138169..58185911) |
Highly expressed in peripheral leukocytes. Also expressed in liver, lung, and spleen.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 9514918 by Ishibashi K., et al. Cloning and functional expression of a new aquaporin (AQP9) abundantly expressed in the peripheral leukocytes permeable to water and urea, but not to glycerol.
PMID: 10564231 by Tsukaguchi H., et al. Functional and molecular characterization of the human neutral solute channel aquaporin-9.