Active Transporters are Universally Leaky, University of Illinois Study

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Professor of Biochemistry Emad Tajkhorshid and colleagues have discovered that membrane transporters help not just sugars and other specific substrates cross from one side of a cellular membrane to the other -- water also comes along for the ride.

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