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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.

Fun fact

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

Words to know

protein
fold

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-3Body as a system
MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

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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