Glucose transporter
| Sugar_tr | |||||||||
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| 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.