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Hemoglobin (alpha)

Hemoglobin is the red stuff in your blood. Oxygen sticks to it in your lungs and comes off again out in your body.

Hemoglobin (alpha): its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P69905, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

One drop of blood holds many thousands of trillions of hemoglobin proteins.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P69905. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P69905.

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