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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.

Acetylcholinesterase: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P22303, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

Some nerve gases jam this enzyme. That is why they are so dangerous.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

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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