As the electron transport carriers shuttle electrons, they actively pump _____ into the outer membrane compartment setting up a concentration gradient called the proton motive force.

A) Phosphate
B) NADH
C) ATP
D) Hydrogen ions
E) Oxygen


D) Hydrogen ions

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