Summary: Sugar efflux transporter for intercellular exchange

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This family includes proteins such as drosophila saliva [1] MtN3 involved in root nodule development [3] and a protein involved in activation and expression of recombination activation genes (RAGs) [2]. Although the molecular function of these proteins is unknown, they are almost certainly transmembrane proteins. This family contains a region of two transmembrane helices that is found in two copies in most members of the family. This family also contains specific sugar efflux transporters that are essential for the maintenance of animal blood glucose levels, plant nectar production, and plant seed and pollen development. In many organisims it meditaes gluose transport; in Arabidopsis it is necessary for pollen viability; and two of the rice homologues are specifically exploited by bacterial pathogens for virulence by means of direct binding of a bacterial effector to the SWEET promoter [4].

Literature references

Artero RD, Terol-Alcayde J, Paricio N, Ring J, Bargues M, Torres A, Perez-Alonso M; , Mech Dev 1998;75:159-162.: saliva, a new Drosophila gene expressed in the embryonic salivary glands with homologues in plants and vertebrates. PUBMED:9739134 EPMC:9739134
Tagoh H, Kishi H, Muraguchi A; , Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1996;221:744-749.: Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel stromal cell-derived cDNA encoding a protein that facilitates gene activation of recombination activating gene (RAG)-1 in human lymphoid progenitors. PUBMED:8630032 EPMC:8630032
Gamas P, Niebel Fd, Lescure N, Cullimore J; , Mol Plant Microbe Interact 1996;9:233-242.: Use of a subtractive hybridization approach to identify new Medicago truncatula genes induced during root nodule development. PUBMED:8634476 EPMC:8634476
Chen LQ, Hou BH, Lalonde S, Takanaga H, Hartung ML, Qu XQ, Guo WJ, Kim JG, Underwood W, Chaudhuri B, Chermak D, Antony G, White FF, Somerville SC, Mudgett MB, Frommer WB;, Nature. 2010;468:527-532.: Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens. PUBMED:21107422 EPMC:21107422

Internal database links

SCOOP:	LAB_N PQ-loop
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch:	PQ-loop

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InterPro entry IPR004316

This family contains specific sugar efflux transporters that are essential for the maintenance of animal blood glucose levels, plant nectar production, and plant seed and pollen development. In many organisms it mediates glucose transport; in Arabidopsis it is necessary for pollen viability; and two of the rice homologues are specifically exploited by bacterial pathogens for virulence by means of direct binding of a bacterial effector to the SWEET promoter [ PUBMED:21107422 ]. Homologues of SWEETs have been identified in bacteria [ PUBMED:24027245 ].

The founding member of the SWEET family, MtN3, was identified as a nodulin-specific EST in the legume Medicago truncatula [ PUBMED:8634476 ]. Another protein in this family may be involved in activation and expression of recombination activation genes (RAGs) [ PUBMED:8630032 ].

This family contains a region of two transmembrane helices that is found in two copies in most members of the family.

Gene Ontology

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Cellular component

integral component of membrane (GO:0016021)

Domain organisation

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Pfam Clan

This family is a member of clan MtN3-like (CL0141), which has the following description:

The clan forms a large and diverse family of proteins with seven transmembrane helices, common topology and, most likely, similar function. Their coding genes exist in all eukaryota and in several prokaryota. Some are responsible for metabolic diseases (cystinosis, congenital disorder of glycosylation), others are candidate genes for genetic disorders (cleft lip and palate, certain forms of cancer) or solute uptake and efflux (SWEETs) and many have not yet been assigned a function. Comparison with the properties of well-annotated clan members suggests that the proteins could be involved in protein trafficking and serve as cargo receptors in vesicle trafficking [3].

The clan contains the following 5 members:

ER_lumen_recept LAB_N MPC MtN3_slv PQ-loop

Alignments

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Alignment types

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RP15/RP35/RP55/RP75: Representative Proteomes (RPs) at 15%, 35%, 55% and 75% co-membership thresholds
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	Seed (20)	Full (11359)	Representative proteomes				UniProt (21081)
	Seed (20)	Full (11359)	RP15 (1505)	RP35 (5950)	RP55 (9317)	RP75 (12753)	UniProt (21081)
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Format an alignment

	Seed (20)	Full (11359)	Representative proteomes				UniProt (21081)
	Seed (20)	Full (11359)	RP15 (1505)	RP35 (5950)	RP55 (9317)	RP75 (12753)	UniProt (21081)
Alignment:
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	Seed (20)	Full (11359)	Representative proteomes				UniProt (21081)
	Seed (20)	Full (11359)	RP15 (1505)	RP35 (5950)	RP55 (9317)	RP75 (12753)	UniProt (21081)
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Trees

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Curation and family details

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Curation

Seed source:

Pfam-B_623 (release 6.4)

Previous IDs:

none

Type:

Repeat

Sequence Ontology:

SO:0001068

Author:

Bateman A

Number in seed:

20

Number in full:

11359

Average length of the domain:

84.50 aa

Average identity of full alignment:

27 %

Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:

61.04 %

HMM information

HMM build commands:

build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED

search method: hmmsearch -Z 57096847 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq

Model details:

Parameter	Sequence	Domain
Gathering cut-off	23.7	23.7
Trusted cut-off	23.7	23.7
Noise cut-off	23.6	23.6

Model length:

87

Family (HMM) version:

18

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Species distribution

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Interactive tree

For all of the domain matches in a full alignment, we count the number that are found on all sequences in the alignment. This total is shown in the purple box.

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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 PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the MtN3_slv domain has been found. There are 14 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.

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Family: MtN3_slv (PF03083)

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