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Alpha-amylase

This enzyme in your spit chops starch into sugar. That is why bread starts to taste sweet if you chew it for a while.

Alpha-amylase: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P0DUB6, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

Amylase is the most common protein in your spit. It makes up about half of all the protein in it.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P0DUB6. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P0DUB6.

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