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On 2 April 2013, Amy L. Davidson lost her battle against thyroid cancer. The membrane transport field has lost one of its best biochemists and a superb mechanistic thinker. Amy devoted her career to uncovering the secrets of the maltose transporter, a prototype of a large protein family called ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters.