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There seems to be a tendency for the transporter-like families to have an even number of TM-helices, because families with 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 TM-helices have a relatively higher occurrence than those with a neighboring odd number of TM-helices.
It contains 12 TM-helices in a homodimer of two 6-TM-helical bundles, which form a central chamber to translocate substrates.
By analyzing the hydrophobicity plots, we can locate TM-helices in the aligned sequences in protein families, and assign a number of TM-helices to each family.
It is known that amino acids are positioned with an average of 3.6 residues per turn in TM-helices [ 20].
For those with seven or fewer TM-helices, the number of families does not vary significantly with helix number, although there are more families with two or four TM-helices than with three, five, six, or seven.