Mercuric Ion Pore (Mer) Superfamily

This family consists of 5 subfamilies, several of which are distantly related. Therefore it can be considered to be a superfamily. Ai Yamaguchi, Dorjee G. Tamang, Milton H Saier, Jr. (2007). Mercury Transport in Bacteria. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. 182: 219 - 234.

Timothy Mok, JS. Chen, MA. Shlykov, MH. Saier Jr. (2012). Bioinformatic Analyses of Bacterial Mercury Ion (Hg²⁺) Transporters. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. 223: 4445 - 4457.