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Collagen

Collagen is the rope that holds your skin, tendons, and bones together. It is the most common protein in your body.

Collagen: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P02452, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

Three collagen chains twist around each other like a tiny braided rope.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P02452. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P02452.

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