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Alkali-ion Carriers: Dynamics and Selectivity

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The excitation of the nerve membrane is intimately coupled to a fast exchange of sodium and potassium ions. Processes of this kind have been studied for a long time, and various mechanisms involving “pumps” and “carriers” have been proposed. Whatever those “demons” are, they must have a size-specific recognition site by which they distinguish selectively a given alkali ion from its (smaller and larger) homologues.

Already published in The Neurosciences: Second Study Program (F. O. Schmitt, Editor-in-Chief). New York: The Rockefeller University Press 1970. — By courtesy of Professor Francis O. Schmitt, Editor, and William A. Bayless, Director of The Rockefeller University Press.

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Winkler, R., Eigen, M. (1972). Alkali-ion Carriers: Dynamics and Selectivity. In: Weber, H.H. (eds) Molecular Bioenergetics and Macromolecular Biochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65309-4_15

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