Major facilitator family

Major facilitator family
Major Facilitator Superfamily
PDB 1pw4 EBI.jpg
Structure of the glycerol-3-phosphate transporter from Escherichia coli.[1]
Identifiers
Symbol MFS_1
Pfam PF07690
InterPro IPR011701
PROSITE PDOC50850
SCOP 1pw4
TCDB 2.A.1
OPM family 15
OPM protein 1pw4

The Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS) transporters are secondary carriers transporting small solutes in response to chemiosmotic ion gradients[2][3].

Human proteins containing this domain

References

  1. ^ Huang Y, Lemieux MJ, Song J, Auer M, Wang DN (August 2003). "Structure and mechanism of the glycerol-3-phosphate transporter from Escherichia coli". Science 301 (5633): 616–20. doi:10.1126/science.1087619. PMID 12893936. 
  2. ^ Paulsen IT, Pao SS, Saier Jr MH (1998). "Major Facilitator Superfamily". Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 62 (1): 1–34. PMC 98904. PMID 9529885. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=98904. 
  3. ^ Gould GW, Walmsley AR, Barrett MP, Bringaud F (1998). "Sugar transporters from bacteria, parasites and mammals: structure-activity relationships". Trends Biochem. Sci. 23 (12): 476–481. doi:10.1016/S0968-0004(98)01326-7. PMID 9868370.