Transporters saturate at high concentrations of the transported molecule when all their binding sites are occupied; channels,

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Transporters saturate at high concentrations of the transported molecule when all their binding sites are occupied; channels, on the other hand, do not bind the ions they transport and thus the flux of ions through a channel does not saturate.


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Molecular Biology Of The Cell

ISBN: 9780815344322

6th Edition

Authors: Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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