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Carrier proteins aid in facilitated diffusion by binding a particular substance, then altering their shape to bring that substance into or out of the cell.

Those molecules can not go through the lipid layer on their own as they can not dissolve in lipids. (This is sometimes called lipophobia).

This relationship is somewhat like an enzyme and substrate combination.

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