Watery Passage (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Watery Passage

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The pump, a single-molecule machine, (yellow coils) carries proteins through the cell membrane (pink and dark blue). Within the pump, the researchers found a strikingly large water-filled channel (light blue), a natural environment for hydrophilic proteins.

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Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics/The Rockefeller University

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