Summary

Name AQP4
Full Name Aquaporin-4
Synonyms AQP-4, Mercurial-insensitive water channel, MIWC, WCH4
Primary ID P55087
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Type protein
Relations 8
Function Forms a water-specific channel (PubMed:7559426, PubMed:8601457, PubMed:19383790). Plays an important role in brain water homeostasis and in glymphatic solute transport. Required for a normal rate of water exchange across the blood brain interface. Required for normal levels of cerebrospinal fluid influx into the brain cortex and parenchyma along paravascular spaces that surround penetrating arteries, and for normal drainage of interstitial fluid along paravenous drainage pathways. Thereby, it is required for normal clearance of solutes from the brain interstitial fluid, including soluble beta-amyloid peptides derived from APP. Plays a redundant role in urinary water homeostasis and urinary concentrating ability (By similarity).

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Regulator Mechanism target score
+ down-regulates activity img/direct_inhibition.png phosphorylation AQP4 0.2
Publications: 1 Organism: In Vitro
+ down-regulates activity img/direct_inhibition.png phosphorylation AQP4 0.345
Publications: 3 Organism: Canis Lupus Familiaris
+ down-regulates activity img/direct_inhibition.png phosphorylation AQP4 0.429
Publications: 3 Organism: Canis Lupus Familiaris
+ up-regulates quantity img/direct-activation.png binding AQP4 0.315
Publications: 1 Organism: Homo Sapiens