Sentences with phrase «sodium ion transport»

«We discovered that it has characteristics similar to the properties previously identified for the pores responsible for sodium ion transport,» says co-lead author Dr Caitlin Byrt, Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine.

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Afterwards, sodium ions are transported back across the cell membrane.

This small protein molecule contains a loop which fits, like a key in a lock, into the ion channel proteins found on nerve cell membranes, which are used to transport sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell.

For example, ATP1B1 encodes a sub-unit of the sodium - potassium plasma membrane pump, which is essential for water and ion transport.

When bulky amino acids are introduced at these positions, the channel width no longer corresponds to the size of sodium ions, and instead cesium ions are transported.

Most other nutrients, on the other hand, are more actively transported - there are certain receptors lining those intestinal cells (cells called enterocytes, if anybody cares) that pull salts, sugars, amino acids, etc. through the intestinal lining into the cells in exchange for other compounds (e.g. they'll pull in a hydrogen ion at the same time as an amino acid, then exchange the new hydrogen atom for a sodium molecule later.)

The Na / K pump operates by transporting two potassium ions into your cells while moving three sodium ions out of your cells.