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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.
Fun fact
Your body can build over a billion different antibody shapes.
Words to know
antibodyimmune systemantigen
NGSS alignment
MS-LS1-3Body as a system
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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