a member of the plasma membrane intrinsic protein PIP2. functions as aquaporin and is involved in dessication.
Computational Description
RESPONSIVE TO DESICCATION 28 (RD28); FUNCTIONS IN: water channel activity; INVOLVED IN: response to desiccation, response to water deprivation, transport, response to osmotic stress; LOCATED IN: plasma membrane, membrane; EXPRESSED IN: shoot, root, flower, cultured cell, leaf; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Major intrinsic protein, conserved site (InterPro:IPR022357), Aquaporin (InterPro:IPR012269), Major intrinsic protein (InterPro:IPR000425); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: plasma membrane intrinsic protein 2 (TAIR:AT2G37170.1); Has 10809 Blast hits to 10795 proteins in 2215 species: Archae - 81; Bacteria - 5139; Metazoa - 1474; Fungi - 455; Plants - 2518; Viruses - 2; Other Eukaryotes - 1140 (source: NCBI BLink).