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Fig. 7 Discrimination of membrane transporters and prediction of transporter class. (a) Input to
discriminate transporters and nontransporters; (b) predicted type of the protein based on amino
acid occurrence; (c) input amino acid sequence to predict the class of the transporter; (d) results
showing the type of the transporter
without evidence for a carrier-mediated mechanism. Electrochemical transporters
are the ones that utilize a carrier-mediated process. Active transporters use a
primary source of energy to drive active transport of a solute against a concentration
gradient.
