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Green Fluorescent Protein

This protein glows bright green under blue light. Scientists attach it to other proteins so they can see where those proteins are inside cells.

Green Fluorescent Protein: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P42212, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

It came from a jellyfish that drifts in the cold North Pacific.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P42212. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P42212.

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