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Science 2 January 1970:
Vol. 167. no. 3914, pp. 55 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.167.3914.55
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Potassium bouis Asymmetrically Activate Erthrocyte Membrane Phosphatase

Alcides F. Rega 1, María I. Pouchan 1, and Patricio J. Garrahan 1

1 Departamento de Química Biológica and Departamento de Físicoquímica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Junín 956, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In Reconstituted ghosts of human red cells, the cell membrane phosphatase is activated by external, but not by internal, potassium. This finding is consistent with the possible participation of the membrane system responsible for cation transport.

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