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Histone H3

Histones are spools that DNA wraps around. Without them, your DNA would not fit inside the cell.

Histone H3: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P68431, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

Stretched out, the DNA in one cell would be about two meters long.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P68431. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P68431.

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