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Proposed Reaction Mechanism for the (Na+ + K+)-Dependent Adenosine Triphosphatase

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ALTHOUGH a definitive description of the reaction mechanism of the (Na+ + K+)-dependent ATPase1,2 must await deter-mination of the three dimensional structure of the enzyme, some clues can be gained from studies of the amino-acids that seem to participate in the active site.

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ROBINSON, J. Proposed Reaction Mechanism for the (Na+ + K+)-Dependent Adenosine Triphosphatase. Nature 233, 419–421 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233419a0

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