A Maxwell's Demon Type of Membrane Trans
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ULRICH HOPFER
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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ATP-binding-cassette (or ABC)-type transporters constitute one of the largest family of membrane transporters in nature. Many of its members move substrates &&actively'', i.e. in an ATP-dependent manner against an electrochemical gradient. No consensus is available about the mechanism. Therefore, a