GO term: magnesium ion transmembrane transporter activity Help


Ontology: Molecular Function (GO:0015095)

Definition: Catalysis of the transfer of magnesium (Mg) ions from one side of a membrane to the other.

Annotation Summary


This table lists the methods used to annotate genes either directly to the term magnesium ion transmembrane transporter activity (3 genes) or to its variants containing one or more qualifiers (0 genes). Note that some genes may have been annotated by more than one method so the numbers in the table below may not add up to the totals given here.

Annotation Method GO Term # Yeast Genes Annotated
Manually curated (download data) magnesium ion transmembrane transporter activity 3
High-throughput none none
Computational none none

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Genes Annotated with this Term


Annotation details for genes that have been directly annotated to the term magnesium ion transmembrane transporter activity or its variants containing one or more qualifiers (NOT, contributes to, or colocalizes with).

magnesium ion transmembrane transporter activity
     3 genes directly annotated to this term
Locus Evidence Annotation Method Reference Assigned By
LPE10/YPL060W IGI: Inferred from Genetic Interaction,
IMP: Inferred from Mutant Phenotype,
ISS: Inferred from Sequence or structural Similarity
Assigned on 2002-09-20
manually curated Gregan J, et al.  (2001) The mitochondrial inner membrane protein Lpe10p, a homologue of Mrs2p, is essential for magnesium homeostasis and group II intron splicing in yeast. Mol Gen Genet 264(6):773-81 SGD
MNR2/YKL064W ISS: Inferred from Sequence or structural Similarity
Assigned on 2002-09-30
manually curated MacDiarmid CW and Gardner RC  (1998) Overexpression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae magnesium transport system confers resistance to aluminum ion. J Biol Chem 273(3):1727-32 SGD
MRS2/YOR334W IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2003-05-19
manually curated Kolisek M, et al.  (2003) Mrs2p is an essential component of the major electrophoretic Mg2+ influx system in mitochondria. EMBO J 22(6):1235-44 SGD
IGI: Inferred from Genetic Interaction,
IMP: Inferred from Mutant Phenotype,
ISS: Inferred from Sequence or structural Similarity
Assigned on 2001-01-18
manually curated Bui DM, et al.  (1999) The bacterial magnesium transporter CorA can functionally substitute for its putative homologue Mrs2p in the yeast inner mitochondrial membrane. J Biol Chem 274(29):20438-43 SGD

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