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  "path": "/scientists-capture-elusive-sodium-pump-in-action-solving-a-long-standing-biological-mystery/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-30T02:57:59.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Biology",
    "Bacteria",
    "Biochemistry",
    "Kyoto University",
    "Microbiology"
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  "textContent": "A long-standing mystery in bacterial bioenergetics is beginning to unravel as researchers capture fleeting structural states of a sodium-pumping enzyme in action. The enzyme Na⁺-NQR acts as a sodium pump that fuels respiration in many marine and disease-causing bacteria. It relies on redox reactions, which involve the transfer of electrons between molecules, to move sodium [...]",
  "title": "Scientists Capture Elusive Sodium Pump in Action, Solving a Long-Standing Biological Mystery"
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