Discovery
The first P-type ATPase discovered was the Na+,K+-ATPase, which Nobel laureate Jens Christian Skou isolated in 1957. The Na+,K+-ATPase was only the first member of a large and still growing protein family, which in May 2013 had around 500 confirmed and unique members in Swiss-Prot (Prosite motif PS00154).
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