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Lysozyme

Lysozyme is in your tears, spit, and snot. It pops open the walls of bacteria before they can make you sick.

Lysozyme: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P61626, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

Alexander Fleming found it in 1922, when he had a cold. He put a drop of his own snot on a dish of germs, and the germs near it broke apart.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P61626. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P61626.

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