New Insight Into the Diversity of SemiSWEET Sugar Transporters and the Homologs in Prokaryotes

Sugars will eventually be exported transporters (SWEETs) and SemiSWEETs represent a family of sugar transporters in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, respectively. SWEETs contain seven transmembrane helices (TMHs), while SemiSWEETs contain three. The functions of SemiSWEETs are less studied. In this persp...

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Main Authors: Baolei Jia, Lujiang Hao, Yuan Hu Xuan, Che Ok Jeon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2018.00180/full