A Thermodynamic Model for Active Ion Transport
Active ion transport is very critical for living cells to maintain and regular internal and external environment. It is known that adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) is a general energy source that applies bond energy for pumps to overcome ion concentration gradient. In this study, we introduce a novel thermodynamic model for active ion transport, which allows the pump to act as a 'Maxwell's demon', and also conforms to the second law of thermodynamics. Transport against the gradient is caused by the thermodynamic fluctuation with information recording in ATP stream. Besides, exhaustive experiments about Na-K ATPase performed in the red cell ghost system are reviewed to verify this model, and all the results can support the solvable theory about the working mechanism of demon pumps. Our findings indicate the possible role of ATP as an information carrier but not energy currency. The high-energy phosphate bonds can improve the efficiency of information recording in relevance to ion transport and may mainly convert to heat.
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