The Identification of the Sodium-Potassium Pump (Nobel Lecture).

Deemed too provocative, the word "pump" was omitted in the title of the 1957 publication "The Influence of Some Cations on an Adenosine Triphosphatase from Peripheral Nerves", in which J. C. Skou showed that an ATPase in the membrane of crab nerves had such characteristics from the point of view of substrate ATP and effect of Na and K that it was reasonable to suggest that it was involved in the active transport of Na across the cell membrane. © 1998 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Fed. Rep. of Germany.