What does the protein do?

Having identified the sequence, we now want to find out what the protein does in the body, and where.

Armed with its UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot code and/or accession number for the top hit, go to the UniProt database and locate our protein's UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entry, as follows:

Don't worry if the biochemistry is totally incomprehensible to you, but if it is, then the following diagram of two molecules may help understand it:

Porphobilinogen (C10H14N2O4) Hydroxymethylbilane (C40H46N4O17)

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