Difficult dance steps: Team learns how membrane transporter moves

Monday, December 2, 2013 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Researchers have tried for decades to understand the undulations and gyrations that allow transport proteins to shuttle molecules from one side of a cell membrane to the other. Now scientists report that they have found a way to penetrate the mystery. They have worked out every step in the molecular dance that enables one such transporter to do its job.

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