ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 689-695.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2015.05.002

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Research Advances in Aquaporin of Parasites

CUI Jian-min1,ZHANG Nian-zhang1,FU Bao-quan1,2*   

  1. (1.State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology/ Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of the Ministry of Agriculture/ Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province,Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Lanzhou 730046,China;2.Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease,Yangzhou 225009,China)
  • Received:2014-08-25 Online:2015-05-23 Published:2015-05-23

Abstract:

Aquaporin (AQP) is one of integral membrane proteins from a family of major intrinsic proteins (MIP).Recent studies revealed that aquaporins in parasites involve in the regulation of osmotic homeostasis,transport process of nutrition,metabolites and anti-parasite drugs,which indicated that the protein could serve as novel vaccine candidate or potential anti-parasite drug’s targets.Learning about the functions and structures of aquaporins in parasites will be of great significance in prevention and treatment of parasitic diseases.This article reviews the functions and structural characteristics of aquaporins in parasites,in order to provide references for the study of the biological agents against parasite diseases.

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