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The alkyl backbone of the transported glycerol is adjacent to the hydrophobic surface and the hydroxyl groups form hydrogen bonds with the hydrophilic surfaces [ 23, 24].
It has two EF-hand-like motifs located in a hydrophilic domain that connects the two transmembrane regions containing the pores [ 30].
The alternatively spliced amino-terminal portion of SLC4A9 contains hydrophilic domains of unknown function.
The hydrophilic head, as the name implies, likes water.
The yeast triphosphatase has a novel tertiary structure in which the active site is situated within a topologically closed hydrophilic tunnel composed of 8 antiparallel β strands, which are conserved in CaCet1 and Pct1 [ 2 ] . Mutational analysis of Cet1 has identified 15 individual side chains within the tunnel that are important for Cet1 function in vitro and in vivo [ 7 8 9 ] . Each of the 8 strands contributes at least one functional group to the active site.