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2.A.37.1.7
Chloroplastic K+ efflux antiporter 2, AtKEA2. Cation preference:  K+ > Cs+ > Li+ > Na+ (Aranda-Sicilia et al. 2012).  The N-terminal hydrophilic domain show sequence similarity to members of the MPA1-C family (8.A.3.1.2). Localizes to the chloroplast inner envelope membrane and plays a role in chloroplast integrity (Kunz et al. 2014). It is up-regulated under salt stress conditions (Yang et al. 2018Yang et al. 2018).

Accession Number:O65272
Protein Name:K(+) efflux antiporter 2, chloroplastic
Length:1174
Molecular Weight:126157.00
Species:Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse-ear cress) [3702]
Number of TMSs:14
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Plastid1 / Multi-pass membrane protein2
Substrate lithium(1+), sodium(1+), potassium(1+), caesium(1+)

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Entrez Gene ID: 825834   
Pfam: PF00999    PF02254   
KEGG: ath:AT4G00630   

Gene Ontology

GO:0031969 C:chloroplast membrane
GO:0016021 C:integral to membrane
GO:0000166 F:nucleotide binding
GO:0015299 F:solute:hydrogen antiporter activity
GO:0006813 P:potassium ion transport

References (5)

[1] “Sequence and analysis of chromosome 4 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.”  Mayer K.F.X.et.al.   10617198
[2] “Whole genome sequence comparisons and 'full-length' cDNA sequences: a combined approach to evaluate and improve Arabidopsis genome annotation.”  Castelli V.et.al.   14993207
[3] “Phylogenetic relationships within cation transporter families of Arabidopsis.”  Maeser P.et.al.   11500563
[4] “Proteomic study of the Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplastic envelope membrane utilizing alternatives to traditional two-dimensional electrophoresis.”  Froehlich J.E.et.al.   12938931
[5] “Sorting signals, N-terminal modifications and abundance of the chloroplast proteome.”  Zybailov B.et.al.   18431481

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MDFASSVQRQ SMFHGGADFA SYCLPNRMIS AKLCPKGLGG TRFWDPMIDS KVRSAIRSKR 
61:	NVSYRSSLTL NADFNGRFYG HLLPAKPQNV PLGFRLLCQS SDSVGDLVGN DRNLEFAEGS 
121:	DDREVTFSKE EKDTREQDSA PSLEELRDLL NKATKELEVA SLNSTMFEEK AQRISEVAIA 
181:	LKDEAASAWN DVNQTLNVVQ EAVDEESVAK EAVQKATMAL SLAEARLQVA LESLEAEGYN 
241:	TSEESEVRDG VKDKEEALLS AKADIKECQE NLASCEEQLR RLQVKKDELQ KEVDRLNEAA 
301:	ERAQISALKA EEDVANIMVL AEQAVAFELE ATQRVNDAEI ALQRAEKTLF GSQTQETTQG 
361:	KVLDGKNTIV GEDEVLSEIV DVSHQAERDL VVVGVSSDVG TQSYESDNEN GKPTADFAKE 
421:	AEGEAEKSKN VVLTKKQEVQ KDLPRESSSH NGTKTSLKKS SRFFPASFFS SNGDGTATVF 
481:	ESLVESAKQQ WPKLILGFTL LGAGVAIYSN GVGRNNQLPQ QPNIVSTSAE DVSSSTKPLI 
541:	RQMQKLPKRI KKLLEMFPQQ EVNEEEASLL DVLWLLLASV IFVPLFQKIP GGSPVLGYLA 
601:	AGILIGPYGL SIIRNVHGTK AIAEFGVVFL LFNIGLELSV ERLSSMKKYV FGLGSAQVLV 
661:	TAAVIGLITH YVAGQAGPAA IVIGNGLALS STAVVLQVLQ ERGESTSRHG RATFSVLLFQ 
721:	DLAVVVLLIL IPLISPNSSK GGIGFQAIAE ALGLAAIKAA VAITGIIAGG RLLLRPIYKQ 
781:	IAENRNAEIF SANTLLVILG TSLLTARAGL SMALGAFLAG LLLAETEFSL QVESDIAPYR 
841:	GLLLGLFFMT VGMSIDPKLL LANFPLIMGT LGLLLVGKTI LVVIIGKLFG ISIISAVRVG 
901:	LLLAPGGEFA FVAFGEAVNQ GIMTPQLSSL LFLVVGISMA LTPWLAAGGQ LIASRFELQD 
961:	VRSLLPVESE TDDLQGHIII CGFGRIGQII AQLLSERLIP FVALDVSSDR VAIGRSLDLP 
1021:	VYFGDAGSRE VLHKIGADRA CAAAIALDTP GANYRCVWAL SKYFPNVKTF VRAHDVDHGL 
1081:	NLEKAGATAV VPETLEPSLQ LAAAVLAQAK LPTSEIATTI NEFRSRHLSE LAELCEASGS 
1141:	SLGYGFSRST SKPKPPSPSE TSDDNQIIEG TLAI