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ACE2

ACE2 sits on the outside of your cells and helps control blood pressure. It is also where the COVID virus's spike sticks.

ACE2: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt Q9BYF1, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

ACE2 lives on cells in your nose, lungs, gut, and heart.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry Q9BYF1. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/Q9BYF1.

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