antiporter activity
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0015297
- Ontology
- molecular function
- Synonyms
- related: antiport
- narrow: dicarboxylate (succinate/fumarate/malate) antiporter activity
- exact: countertransporter activity
- exact: exchange transporter activity
- broad: exchanger
- broad: porter
- Definition
- Enables the active transport of a solute across a membrane by a mechanism whereby two or more species are transported in opposite directions in a tightly coupled process not directly linked to a form of energy other than chemiosmotic energy. [source:
GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729, PMID:10839820]
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