New insight into a central biological dogma on ion transport

Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 09:22 in Biology & Nature

New research results from Aarhus University and New York University show how active transport of potassium can be achieved by a membrane protein complex that has roots in both ion pump and ion channel super-families. The results, which have just been published in Nature, shed new light on what define channels and pumps.

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