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Antifreeze protein (type I)

Some fish in icy water make this protein. It sticks to tiny ice crystals so they cannot grow big enough to hurt the fish.

Antifreeze protein (type I): its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P04002, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

Winter flounder swim happily at almost minus 2°C.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P04002. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P04002.

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