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Clan: MFS (CL0015)

Summary

Major Facilitator Superfamily Add an annotation

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

  1. 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_prot

Domain 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
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
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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