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Ion transport

Spot the difference

Nature volume 427, pages 795–797 (2004)Cite this article

Common wisdom holds that ion channels and ion pumps, with their obvious functional differences, should have visibly dissimilar structures. It seems that's not necessarily so.

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Figure 1: Functional differences between ion channels and ion exchange pumps.

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