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Theory Of Active Transport Across Frog Skin And Other Bifacial Cell Systems: A Subsidiary Of The Association-Induction Hypothesis, Gilbert N. Ling
Theory Of Active Transport Across Frog Skin And Other Bifacial Cell Systems: A Subsidiary Of The Association-Induction Hypothesis, Gilbert N. Ling
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This review presents the theory of solute transport across frog skin, epithelial cells of the intestine, the kidney tubules, and other similar systems. This theory is a part of a broader theory of the living cell, called the association-induction hypothesis.
The central pumping mechanism is the cyclic activity of a sponge-like cytoplasmic protein(s), which alternately sop-up (by adsorption) the solute being transported and squeeze it out again (by desorption) into the cytoplasmic water at a high concentration level. The uptake phase begins with the adsorption of ATP on key cardinal sites of the protein involved; the release phase is triggered …