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Acetylcholinesterase
Your nerves send a signal called acetylcholine to your muscles. This enzyme chops it back up so the signal turns off.
Fun fact
Some nerve gases jam this enzyme. That is why they are so dangerous.
Words to know
enzymemuscleneuron
NGSS alignment
MS-LS1-3Body as a system
Structure
Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P22303. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P22303.
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