Since the sodium pump of Krokinobacter eikastus is driven by light, researchers can now use it for so-called optogenetics. With this technology, cells, in this case nerve cells, ...

The story of the sodium-potassium pump has strong ties to Denmark. In 1997, the Danish scientist Jens Chr. Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, and over the years ...

The sodium pump is present in the surface membrane of all animal cells, using energy derived from ATP to transport sodium and potassium ions in opposite directions across the cell boundary.

Jens Chr. Skou's sodium-potassium pump is best known as the membrane pump that is needed for the normal functioning of nerve cells, kidney cells and most of the body's other cells.

A toxin isolated from coral reefs has enabled US scientists to better understand exactly how the sodium/potassium ion pump works, paving the way for better treatments for hypertension and heart ...

They can tolerate this food source because of a peculiarity in a crucial protein in their bodies, a sodium pump, that the cardenolide toxins usually interfere with. All animals have this pump.

The ubiquitous sodium pump appears to be more versatile than we thought. In addition to its role as a sodium and potassium ion transporter, researchers now show that the pump can simultaneously ...

In the muscle tissue of the African fish, the sodium-pump gene was still functional, but like a lock with no key, it could not activate without helper molecules that muscle tissue did not make.

PREVIOUS results have shown that X-irradiation of human erythrocytes decreases the active efflux of sodium (sodium pump)1. However, 890 rads and 4,450 rads, which are effective in inducing a 45 ...

A new theory proposes the primordial life-forms that gave rise to all life on Earth left deep-sea vents because of their "invention" of a tiny pump. These primitive cellular pumps would have ...

Such sodium pumps are also found in the membranes of bacteria. They belong to the family of the so-called rhodopsins. These are special proteins that are activated by light.