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2.A.1.8.15
Probable nitrate transporter NarT of 388 aas and 12 TMSs in a 6 + 6 TMS arrangement.  In Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, an insertional mutation in the MFS transporter, NarT, may influence pathogenesis (Hiller et al. 2024).  

Accession Number:O33854
Protein Name:Probable nitrate transporter narT
Length:388
Molecular Weight:41871.00
Species:Staphylococcus carnosus (strain TM300) [396513]
Number of TMSs:12
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Cell membrane1 / Multi-pass membrane protein2
Substrate nitrate

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Entrez Gene ID: 7550899   
Pfam: PF07690   
KEGG: sca:Sca_1887   

Gene Ontology

GO:0016021 C:integral to membrane
GO:0005886 C:plasma membrane
GO:0042128 P:nitrate assimilation
GO:0055085 P:transmembrane transport

References (3)

[1] “Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of a gene (narT) encoding a transport protein involved in dissimilatory nitrate reduction in Staphylococcus carnosus.”  Fast B.et.al.   9082911
[2] “Genome analysis of the meat starter culture bacterium Staphylococcus carnosus TM300.”  Rosenstein R.et.al.   19060169
[3] “The nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase operons and the narT gene of Staphylococcus carnosus are positively controlled by the novel two-component system NreBC.”  Fedtke I.et.al.   12426351

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MNKSKGGLQL TVQTLSLVAG FMVWSIIAPL MPMISQDIKI TSSQISIVLA IPVILGSVLR 
61:	IPFGYLTNII GAKWVFFSSF IILLFPIFLL SQAQSVNMLM LAGFFLGVGG AVFSVGVTSI 
121:	PKYFPKDKVG LANGIYGMGN LGTAVSSFLA PPIAGAIGWQ STVRLYLIVM AVFAIVMFFL 
181:	GDAKEPKVKI PLVAQTKDLL KDLRTYYLSF WYFITFGSFV AFGIFLPKYL VDHYELTTVD 
241:	AGIRAGIFIA IATFLRPLGG IIGDKIDAVK ALKVDFLFMI IGAIILGIAN DMILFTVGCL 
301:	TVSVCAGIGN GLVFKLVPQY FQKEAGVANG IVSMMGGLGG FFPPLVITYV TSITGTSHLA 
361:	FIFLALFGVL ALVTMWHLSK KNRSLAYK