Its name is pronounced "sodium-potassium A. T. P. ay-ss" but it more commonly goes by "sodium-potassium pump" or "Na+/K+ pump." It works at the cell membrane and is named for its job: pumping sodium and potassium ions using energy from ATP. Animal cell The amounts of these positively-charged ions in the cell needs to stay …
Meet Na+/K+ ATPase!
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