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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.

Aldolase A: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P04075, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

Without aldolase, the main path your cells use to get quick energy from glucose would stop before the sugar is split.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

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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