Glucose transporter
| Sugar_tr | |||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||
| Symbol | Sugar_tr | ||||||
| Pfam | PF00083 | ||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0015 | ||||||
| InterPro | IPR005828 | ||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00190 | ||||||
| TCDB | 2.A.1.1 | ||||||
| OPM superfamily | 15 | ||||||
| OPM protein | 4gc0 | ||||||
| CDD | cd17315 | ||||||
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Glucose transporters are a wide group of membrane proteins that facilitate the transport of glucose across the plasma membrane, a process known as facilitated diffusion. Because glucose is a vital source of energy for all life, these transporters are present in all phyla. The GLUT or SLC2A family are a protein family that is found in most mammalian cells. 14 GLUTS are encoded by the human genome. GLUT is a type of uniporter transporter protein.