Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
When was the last time you folded a piece of paper to make a fun shape? Maybe you made a paper plane or tried origami to make a swan. Believe it or not, the building blocks inside your body also need to fold into the right shapes to work properly.
In this activity, you can build your own protein channel from paper. Part 1 will show you how to create one amino acid subunit. Part 2 will show you how to take eight amino acids created in Part 1 and make them into a protein channel.
When was the last time you folded a piece of paper to make a fun shape? Maybe you made a paper plane or tried origami to make a swan. Believe it or not, the building blocks inside your body also need to fold into the right shapes to work properly.
In this activity, you can build your own protein channel from paper. Part 1 will show you how to create one amino acid subunit. Part 2 will show you how to take eight amino acids created in Part 1 and make them into a protein channel.
