Actinidin
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, a line every nanometer. A kiwi is about nine million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Actinidain. Kin to papain.
- Height
- 5.7 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 39 zeptograms
- Build
- 220 amino acids in two lobes, a cleft between.
- Marks
- A cysteine in the cleft does the cutting.
- Habits
- Cuts gelatin to pieces. Gelatin made with fresh kiwi won’t set.
- Known for
- Tenderizing meat.
- Weakness
- Heat. It comes apart at 140 °F.
- Origins
- Green kiwifruit. Gold kiwis carry almost none.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked KIWI in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one green kiwi, give or take.
Kiwis vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Actinidin, No. 92. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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