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Glucose can cross the cell membrane only using a carrierbut in a passive or active way. What is the twosignificant difference between facilitateddiffusion using Glut channel and the cotransport of glucose usingNa+ to do it?

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Glucose transport GLUTs are integral membrane proteins that contain 12 membranespanning helices with both the amino and carboxyl termini exposed on the cytoplasmic side of the plasma membrane GLUT proteins transport glucose and related hexoses according to a model of alternate conformationwhich predicts that the transporter exposes a single substrate binding site toward either the    See Answer
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