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DNA polymerase

DNA polymerases copy your DNA before a cell splits. This one, polymerase alpha, starts each new piece of the copy. Other polymerases carry the copying on and fix most mistakes.

DNA polymerase: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P09884, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

Copying DNA is fast: in your cells it moves along at tens of letters every second.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P09884. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P09884.

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