Artificial water channels: inspiration, progress, and challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 415-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Gong
Keyword(s):  
Water Permeability ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Pore Density ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Filtration Membranes ◽  
Artificial Water

Developing bioinspired artificial water channels may lead to the next-generation filtration membranes with ultra-high pore density and exclusive water permeability.

Foldamer-based ultrapermeable and highly selective artificial water channels that exclude protons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Jie Shen ◽  
Himanshu Joshi ◽  
Woochul Song ◽  
Yu-Ming Tu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Channels ◽  
Artificial Water

Progesterone inhibition of water permeability in Bufo arenarum oocytes and urinary bladder

1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (5) ◽  
pp. F880-F885 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ford ◽  
G. Amodeo ◽  
C. Capurro ◽  
C. Ibarra ◽  
R. Dorr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Bladder ◽  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Water Permeability ◽  
Water Channel ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Toad Urinary Bladder ◽  
Osmotic Permeability ◽  
Bufo Arenarum ◽  
Mrna Extraction

The ovarian oocytes from Bufo arenarum (BAO) but not those from Xenopus laevis (XLO) would have water channels (WC). We now report that the injection of the mRNA from BAO into the oocytes from XLO increased their water osmotic permeability (Pi) (reduced by 0.3 mM HgCl2 and reversed by 5 mM beta-mercaptoethanol). A 30-min challenge with progesterone induced, 18 h later, a reduction of the mercury-sensitive fraction of Pf in the BAO (but not in XLO). The mRNA from BAO pretreated with progesterone lost its capacity to induce WC in the XLO, but the hormone did not affect the expression of the WC in XLO previously injected with the mRNA from BAO. Pf was also measured in urinary bladders of BAO. Eighteen hours after a challenge with progesterone, a reduction in the hydrosmotic response to oxytocin was observed. Finally, the mRNA from the urinary bladder of BAO was injected into XLO. An increase in Pf was observed. This was not the case if, before the mRNA extraction, the bladders were treated with progesterone. We conclude that the BAO WC share progesterone sensitivity with the oxytocin-regulated water channel present in the toad urinary bladder.

Artificial Water Channels

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Maria Di Vincenzo ◽  
Sophie Cerneaux ◽  
Istvan Kocsis ◽  
Mihail Barboiu
Keyword(s):  
Water Channels ◽  
Artificial Water

scholarly journals Artificial water channels—deconvolution of natural Aquaporins through synthetic design

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Istvan Kocsis ◽  
Zhanhu Sun ◽  
Yves Marie Legrand ◽  
Mihail Barboiu
Keyword(s):  
Water Channels ◽  
Artificial Water

Design Considerations for Artificial Water Channel–Based Membranes

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woochul Song ◽  
Chao Lang ◽  
Yue-xiao Shen ◽  
Manish Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Water Channel ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Structure And Properties ◽  
High Permeability ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Biological Water ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Artificial Water

Aquaporins (AQPs) are naturally occurring water channel proteins. They can facilitate water molecule translocation across cellular membranes with exceptional selectivity and high permeability that are unmatched in synthetic membrane systems. These unique properties of AQPs have led to their use as functional elements in membranes in recent years. However, the intricate nature of AQPs and concerns regarding their stability and processability have encouraged researchers to develop synthetic channels that mimic the structure and properties of AQPs and other biological water-conducting channels. These channels have been termed artificial water channels. This article reviews current progress and provides a historical perspective as well as an outlook toward developing scalable membranes based on artificial water channels.

Apical membrane vesicles of ADH-stimulated toad bladder are highly water permeable

1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (2) ◽  
pp. F237-F243
Author(s):  
H. W. Harris ◽  
J. S. Handler ◽  
R. Blumenthal
Keyword(s):  
Water Permeability ◽  
Apical Membrane ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Granular Cell ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Apical Plasma Membrane ◽  
Toad Urinary Bladder ◽  
Erythrocyte Ghosts ◽  
Particle Aggregates ◽  
Particle Aggregate

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulation of the toad urinary bladder causes intracellular vesicles called aggrephores to fuse with the apical plasma membrane of granular cells. Aggrephore membranes contain particle aggregates. Particle aggregates are believed to be water channels that cause large increases in the water permeability (PF) of the granular cell apical membrane. Removal of ADH causes the retrieval of particle aggregate-containing apical membrane via endocytosis and a decline in PF. We have previously shown that fluid phase markers are sequestered in these particle aggregate-containing vesicles during retrieval of the apical membrane and that these vesicles can be recovered in cell homogenates. We have now loaded these vesicles with the self-quenching fluorophore carboxyfluorescein (CF) to measure and compare their PF with that of CF-loaded resealed human erythrocyte ghosts. The membranes of these retrieved vesicles have a very high water permeability. The minimum PF of 99% of these vesicles is 4.5 X 10(-2) cm/s. This PF is comparable with that of erythrocyte ghosts (5.4 X 10(-2) cm/s) measured under identical conditions. We conclude that these vesicles are highly permeable to water, and this is consistent with their postulated function of retrieving water channels that have been inserted into the apical membrane in response to ADH.

Conformational dynamics and interfacial interactions of peptide-appended pillar[5]arene water channels in biomimetic membranes

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (41) ◽  
pp. 22711-22721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Harish Vashisth
Keyword(s):  
Water Purification ◽  
Conformational Dynamics ◽  
Water Channel ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Interfacial Interactions ◽  
Biomimetic Membranes ◽  
Channel Proteins ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Biological Water ◽  
Artificial Water

Peptide appended pillar[5]arene (PAP) is an artificial water channel resembling biological water channel proteins, which has shown a significant potential for designing bioinspired water purification systems.

Anion-induced dynamic behavior of apical water channels in vasopressin-sensitive epithelia exposed to mercury

1994 ◽  
Vol 266 (6) ◽  
pp. C1577-C1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Grosso ◽  
P. Jaquet ◽  
P. Brawand ◽  
R. C. De Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Water Permeability ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Bufo Marinus ◽  
Glutaraldehyde Fixation ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Anion Effect ◽  
Channel Protein ◽  
Intracellular Chloride

We showed recently that, in toad skins preexposed to Hg, water permeability is high in SO4-Ringer and low in Cl-Ringer. This anion effect was further investigated in Hg-treated skins and bladders of toads (Bufo marinus) in a variety of experimental conditions, including glutaraldehyde fixation and stimulation by vasopressin (VP) or isoproterenol (IP). In fixed bladders either unstimulated or stimulated with VP, net water flow (Jw) in SO4-Ringer [Jw (SO4)] was always significantly higher than Jw in Cl [Jw (Cl)]; the same applies to fixed toad skins, either unstimulated or stimulated with IP. In unfixed isolated toad epidermis challenged with IP before Hg exposure, Jw(SO4)/Jw(Cl) >> 1 approaching the ratio Jw (maximally stimulated)/Jw (basal). Therefore, anion-induced Jw changes were present whether Hg acted on epithelial water channels exocytosed by Hg itself or by hydrosomotic agents and suggest a switching between open and closed configurations of the channel protein. This anion effect was not abolished by glutaraldehyde and might be correlated with changes in intracellular chloride.

scholarly journals Biomimetic Approach for Highly Selective Artificial Water Channels Based on Tubular Pillar[5]arene Dimers

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (51) ◽  
pp. 23413-23419
Author(s):  
Dmytro Strilets ◽  
Shixin Fa ◽  
Arthur Hardiagon ◽  
Marc Baaden ◽  
Tomoki Ogoshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Channels ◽  
Biomimetic Approach ◽  
Artificial Water
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