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Keratin
Keratin builds your hair, fingernails, and the top layer of your skin. It is tough because its chains stack tightly.
Fun fact
Rhino horns are made of the same keratin as your fingernails.
Words to know
proteincell
NGSS alignment
MS-LS1-3Body as a system
Structure
Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P04264. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P04264.
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