Table S1.

TaqMan gene expression assays employed to monitor aquaporin expression

Gene product	Substrate	ABI assay IDa	Interrogated sequence RefSeq	Translated protein RefSeq	NCBI location chromosome	Exon boundary
AQP1	H2O	Hs00166067_m1b	NM_198098.1	NP_932766.1	Chr. 7 – 30951415–30965131	1–2, assay loc: 492
AQP3	H2O Glycerol H2O2 NH4+ Urea	Hs00185020_m1	NM_004925.3	NP_004916.1	Chr. 9 – 33441158–33447590	2–3 assay loc: 297
AQP4	H2O	Hs00242342_m1	NM_001650.4	NP_001641.1	Chr. 18 – 24432007–24445716	2–3 assay loc: 508
AQP5	H2O	Hs00387048_m1	NM_001651.2	NP_001642.1	Chr. 12 – 50355279–50359461	1–2 assay loc: 888
AQP7	H2O Glycerol Urea	Hs00357359_m1	NM_001170.1	NP_001161.1	Chr. 9 – 33384948–33402517	2–3 assay loc: 199
AQP8	H2O H2O2 NH4+	Hs00154124_m1	NM_001169.2	NP_001160.2	Chr. 16 – 25228285–25240253	2–3 assay loc: 339
AQP9	H2O Glycerol Urea	Hs00175573_m1	NM_020980.3	NP_066190.2	Chr. 15 – 58430408–58478110	1–2 assay loc: 467
TNF-α		Hs99999043_m1	NM_000594.2	NP_000585.2	Chr. 6 – 31543350–31546112	1–2 assay loc: 360
IL-23A		Hs00372324_m1	NM_016584.2	NP_057668.1	Chr. 12 – 56732663–56734194	1–2 assay loc: 323
COX-2/PTGS2		Hs00153133_m1	NM_000963.2	NP_000954.1	Chr. 1 – 186640944–186649559	5–6 assay loc: 777

Notes:

^aAll assays used dye label FAM;

^bAn assay whose probe spans an exon junction and does not detect genomic DNA.

Abbreviations: HS, Homo sapiens; AQP, aquaporin; IL, interleukin; loc, location; COX-2, cyclooxygenase 2; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α.