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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.

Sodium-potassium pump: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P05023, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

At rest, about a quarter of the energy your body uses goes into running these pumps.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

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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