Ferritin

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

Fun fact

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

Words to know

cell
protein

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-2Inside the cell
MS-LS1-3Body as a system

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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