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Aquaporin-1

Aquaporins are water channels in the thin membrane around your cells. They let water rush in and out without letting salt or sugar through.

Aquaporin-1: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P29972, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

Your kidneys filter about 180 liters of water a day and pull almost all of it back, much of it through these channels.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P29972. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P29972.

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