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Tubulin

Tubulin snaps together into long hollow tubes. Those tubes are the rails your cell uses to move things around.

Tubulin: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt Q71U36, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

When a cell splits in two, tubulin tubes pull the chromosomes apart.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry Q71U36. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/Q71U36.

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