Insulin

Insulin tells your body to use sugar after you eat. Without it, sugar piles up in your blood.

Fun fact

Insulin was the first protein ever fully spelled out, letter by letter, in 1955.

Words to know

protein
hormone

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-3Body as a system
MS-LS3-1Structure & function of proteins

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P01308. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P01308.

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