Scientific publications

List of scientific publications documenting the priority of Gheorghe Benga's group in the discovery of the first water channel protein.

1. Benga Gh, Popescu O, Pop VI, Holmes RP. p-(Chloromercuri)benzenesulfonate binding by membranes proteins and the inhibiton of water transport in human erythrocytes. Biochemistry, 1986, 25: 1535-1538.

2. Benga Gh, Popescu O, Borza Victoria, Pop VI, Muresan A, Mocsy I, Brain A, Wrigglesworth JM. Water permeability of human erythrocytes. Identification of membrane proteins involved in water transport. Eur J Cell Biol, 1986, 41: 252-262.

3. Benga Gh. Membrane proteins involved in the water permeability of human erythrocytes: binding of p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonate to membrane proteins correlated with nuclear magnetic resonance measurements. In Benga Gh (Ed.), Water transport in biological membranes, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1989, Vol. 2, pp. 41-61.

4. Benga Gh. Birth of water channel proteins-the aquaporins. Cell Biol Int, 2003, 27: 701-709.

5. Jaime I. Vandenberg, Philip W. Kuchel. Nobel Prizes for magnetic resonance imaging and channel proteins. Medical J Australia, Oct. 31, 2003, 179: 611-613.

6. *** Nobel mistery. Comment (The Newsletter of King's College University of London, UK), Jan. 2004, Issue No. 151: 4.

7. Benga Gh. Canalele proteice pentru apa (aquaporine) din membranele celulare: de la descoperirea lor la Cluj-Napoca in 1985 la Premiul Nobel pentru chimie 2003. Craiova Medicala, 2004, 6, Suppl. 2: 201-203.