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Lactoferrin

Lactoferrin in milk and tears holds on tightly to iron, so germs nearby get less of it. Germs need iron to grow, so this slows them down.

Lactoferrin: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P02788, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

Newborns get a big dose of lactoferrin from their mother's first milk.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P02788. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P02788.

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