Consider a transmembrane protein that forms a hydrophilic pore across the plasma membrane of a eukaryotic cell, allowing Na+ to enter the cell when it is activated upon binding a specific ligand on its extracellular side. It is made of five similar transmembrane subunits, each containing a membrane-spanning α helix with hydrophilic amino acid side chains on one surface of the helix and hydrophobic amino acid side chains on the opposite surface. Considering the function of the protein as a channel for Na+ ions to enter the cell, propose a possible arrangement of the five membrane-spanning α helices in the membrane.

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In simple words, osmosis is the slow, gradual movement of a liquid through a membrane. But there are nuances to this process. For instance, there has to be an imbalance in the distribution of solute in the liquid on either side of the membrane, which has to be semipermeable. The liquid in the region with a lower solute concentration moves to the region with a higher concentration, thereby displacing the solution in the process. The objective is to equalize the concentration of molecules on both sides of the membrane; the displacement of liquid can be viewed as a byproduct of this equalization. Since there is no energy required to carry osmosis, it is considered a passive process.