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Ferritin

Ferritin is a hollow ball that stores iron safely inside your cells until your body needs it.

Ferritin: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P02794, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

One ferritin ball can hold up to 4,500 iron atoms.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P02794. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P02794.

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