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Antibody (IgG)

Antibodies are Y-shaped grabbers your blood makes to catch germs. They lock onto a germ and flag it for the cleanup team.

Antibody (IgG): its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P01857, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

Your body can build many billions of different antibody shapes.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P01857. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P01857.

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