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The diverse members of the mitochondrial carrier family in plants
Author(s) -
Haferkamp Ilka
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.02.020
Subject(s) - mitochondrion , mitochondrial carrier , plastid , yeast , biochemistry , biology , nucleotide , gene isoform , genome , atp–adp translocase , mitochondrial membrane transport protein , microbiology and biotechnology , inner mitochondrial membrane , gene , chloroplast , bacterial outer membrane , escherichia coli
Sequencing of plant genomes allowed the identification of various members of the mitochondrial carrier family (MCF). In plants, these structurally related proteins are involved in the transport of solutes like nucleotides, phosphate, di‐ and tricarboxylates across the mitochondrial membrane and therefore exhibit physiological functions similar to known isoforms from animal or yeast mitochondria. Interestingly, various studies led to the recognition of MCF proteins which mediate the transport of different substrates like folates, S ‐adenosylmethionine, ADPglucose or ATP, ADP and AMP in plastids.