The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) revisited

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2022-2035

  Reddy, Vamsee S ^a   Shlykov, Maksim A ^a   Castillo, Rostislav ^a   Sun, Eric I ^a   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

evolution; secondary active transport; superfamily; transport proteins; uptake efflux

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERMEASE; PROTEIN UMF10; PROTEIN UMF11; PROTEIN UMF12; PROTEIN UMF13; PROTEIN UMF14; PROTEIN UMF15; PROTEIN UMF16; PROTEIN UMF2; PROTEIN UMF3; PROTEIN UMF4; PROTEIN UMF5; PROTEIN UMF6; PROTEIN UMF7; PROTEIN UMF8; PROTEIN UMF9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84861193393     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08588.x     Document Type: Article

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