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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 3.
Primary structure of insulin
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