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Insulin

Insulin is a signal your body sends out after you eat. It makes your cells take in sugar. Without it, sugar piles up in your blood.

Insulin: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P01308, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

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

Words to know

NGSS alignment

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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