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Alpha-crystallin A

This protein packs tightly into your eye lens so it stays clear. As we get older, it slowly tangles, and lenses can cloud over.

Alpha-crystallin A: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P02489, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

Cataract surgery swaps out the cloudy lens for a clear plastic one.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P02489. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P02489.

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