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Membrane transporter proteins switch between conformational states to move substrates across membranes. The transition between these states can now be studied using single-molecule experiments.

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Figure 1: Conformational states of a membrane transporter.

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  1. and the Department of Cell Biology, Nathan K. Karpowich and Da-Neng Wang are at the Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. karpowic@saturn.med.nyu.edu,

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Karpowich, N., Wang, DN. Transporter in the spotlight. Nature 465, 171–172 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465171a

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