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Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

Insulin

Studying insulin reveals some really cool protein motifs of life:

both the A chain and B chain are transcribed from a single gene. The resulting peptide also contain:
- the C-peptide in the middle which gets removed
- a signaling sequence telling the cell to export the substance out as it is a hormone

Figure 1.
Primary structure of insulin
. Source.

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Proinsulin

 0  0 

A chain of insulin (21 amino acids)

 0  0 

B chain of insulin (30 amino acids)

 0  0 

C-peptide (31 amino acids)

 0  0 

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