InterPro domain: IPR044677

General Information

  • Identifier IPR044677
  • Description Mitochondrial phosphate carrier protein Pic2/Mir1-like
  • Number of genes 547
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  • Associated GO terms GO:0005315   GO:1990547  

Abstract

This entry represents a group of mitochondrial phosphate carrier proteins, including Mir1 and Pic2 from budding yeasts. They are copper and phosphate carriers that imports copper and inorganic phosphate into mitochondria [ 1 , 2 ].


1. Copper import into the mitochondrial matrix in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is mediated by Pic2, a mitochondrial carrier family protein. J Biol Chem 288, 23884-92
2. Redundancy in the function of mitochondrial phosphate transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Microbiol 51, 307-17

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