@ElizabethJPetro
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Molecule of the day: ouabain
The molecule of the day is
ouabain
:
It's
derived from the seeds of
Strophanthus gratus
and
inhibits the Na+/K+-ATPase
(the Na+/K+ exchanger or sodium pump), and
can therefore be used to distinguish among different enzymes' ATPase activities
.
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