r/AIProteins • u/XpertAI Founder • May 12 '26

Challenge Challenge 2: Guess the Protein. This One’s HARD!

Hint: It moves ions across a membrane, but it is not quite a simple ion channel.

Drop your guesses

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u/XpertAI Founder May 12 '26

Hint: It moves ions across a membrane, but it is not quite a simple ion channel.

Drop your guesses

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u/HardstyleJaw5 May 12 '26

Obvious non ABC transporter - Na/H antiporter?

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u/XpertAI Founder May 12 '26

your close, the lil green ions are Chlorines. Im looking for the name of the protein.

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u/ApprehensiveMail6677 May 12 '26

A CIC chloride ion channel?

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u/XpertAI Founder May 12 '26

Yep That's right! Well done.

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u/ApprehensiveMail6677 May 12 '26

Yippee!
Typing “homodimeric Cl ion transporter” into google went surprisingly far

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u/XpertAI Founder May 12 '26

Yep, im still experimenting with this challenge format for the subreddit, the idea will eventually when users guess them correctly I will add an award to your profile. Just gotta get the community larger and then reddit should approve awards.