Aquaporin 8 Antibody

Aquaporin-8 is encoded by the AQP8 gene and is a water channel protein. Aquaporins are a family of small integral membrane proteins related to the major intrinsic protein (MIP or AQP0). Aquaporin 8 mRNA is found predominantly in pancreas and colon. The AQP8 gene contains 6 exons. It is mapped to chromosome 16p12.