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GLUT4 (glucose transporter)

GLUT4 is a sugar door on your muscle and fat cells. After you eat, insulin's signal brings more of these doors up to the cell's surface.

GLUT4 (glucose transporter): its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P14672, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

When you exercise, your muscles can bring GLUT4 doors up to the surface even without insulin.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P14672. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P14672.

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