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Sodium-potassium pump

This pump uses fuel to push sodium out of your cell and pull potassium in. Your nerves and muscles need this gap to work.

Fun fact

About a third of the energy your body uses goes to running these pumps.

Words to know

cell
membrane
atp

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-3Body as a system
MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P05023. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P05023.

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