Summary
Major Facilitator Superfamily
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is one of the two largest families of membrane transporters found on Earth [1]. It is present ubiquitously in bacteria, archaea, and eukarya and includes members that can function by solute uniport, solute/cation symport, solute/cation antiport and/or solute/solute antiport with inwardly and/or outwardly directed polarity [1]. All permeases of the MFS possess either 12 or 14 transmembrane helices [1].
This clan contains 26 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 731832. The clan was built by A Bateman.
Literature references
- Pao SS, Paulsen IT, Saier MH Jr; , Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1998;62:1-34.: Major facilitator superfamily. PUBMED:9529885 EPMC:9529885
Members
This clan contains the following 26 member families:
Acatn ATG22 BT1 CLN3 DUF5690 Folate_carrier FPN1 LacY_symp MFS_1 MFS_1_like MFS_2 MFS_3 MFS_4 MFS_5 MFS_Mycoplasma Nodulin-like Nuc_H_symport Nucleoside_tran OATP PTR2 PUCC Sugar_tr TLC TRI12 UNC-93 UVB_sens_protDomain organisation
Below is a listing of the unique domain organisations or architectures from this clan. More...
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Alignments
The table below shows the number of occurrences of each domain throughout the sequence database. More...
Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
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MFS_1 (PF07690) | 477899 (65.3%) | View |
Sugar_tr (PF00083) | 129815 (17.7%) | View |
PTR2 (PF00854) | 30082 (4.1%) | View |
MFS_2 (PF13347) | 14089 (1.9%) | View |
MFS_3 (PF05977) | 13707 (1.9%) | View |
OATP (PF03137) | 7313 (1.0%) | View |
ATG22 (PF11700) | 6858 (0.9%) | View |
Nucleoside_tran (PF01733) | 5784 (0.8%) | View |
BT1 (PF03092) | 5714 (0.8%) | View |
MFS_1_like (PF12832) | 5211 (0.7%) | View |
UNC-93 (PF05978) | 5209 (0.7%) | View |
Acatn (PF13000) | 4633 (0.6%) | View |
Nodulin-like (PF06813) | 4336 (0.6%) | View |
UVB_sens_prot (PF04884) | 3293 (0.4%) | View |
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Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
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FPN1 (PF06963) | 2502 (0.3%) | View |
TRI12 (PF06609) | 2439 (0.3%) | View |
Folate_carrier (PF01770) | 2314 (0.3%) | View |
CLN3 (PF02487) | 2303 (0.3%) | View |
MFS_5 (PF05631) | 2044 (0.3%) | View |
MFS_4 (PF06779) | 1791 (0.2%) | View |
Nuc_H_symport (PF03825) | 1381 (0.2%) | View |
TLC (PF03219) | 1233 (0.2%) | View |
PUCC (PF03209) | 998 (0.1%) | View |
DUF5690 (PF18943) | 425 (0.1%) | View |
LacY_symp (PF01306) | 413 (0.1%) | View |
MFS_Mycoplasma (PF07672) | 46 (0.0%) | View |
Total: 26 | Total: 731832 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
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Species distribution
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Structures
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt three-dimensional structures. The table below shows the mapping between the Pfam families in this clan, the corresponding UniProt entries, and the region of the three-dimensional structures that are available for that sequence.
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