Aldolase A

Aldolase is a sugar-cutter. It splits a six-carbon sugar in half so your cells can keep pulling energy out of it.

Fun fact

Without aldolase, you could not get any energy out of glucose.

Words to know

enzyme
cell

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-7Food, energy, and growth
MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P04075. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P04075.

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