Transporters saturate at high concentrations of the transported molecule when all their binding sites are occupied; channels,
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Transporters saturate at high concentrations of the transported molecule when all their binding sites are occupied; channels, on the other hand, do not bind the ions they transport and thus the flux of ions through a channel does not saturate.
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Molecular Biology Of The Cell
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