The primary structure of ratfish insulin reveals an unusual mode of proinsulin processing

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Abstract

The primary structure of insulin from the Holocephalan fish, Hydrolagus colliei (the ratfish), has been established by automated Edman degradation as: {A figure is presented}.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)445-450
Number of pages6
JournalFEBS Letters
Volume208
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 24 Nov 1986

Funding

This work was supported by the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk and the Swedish Medical Research Council. We thank Professor N. Hilschmann, Max-Planck-Institut fiir Ex-perimentelleM edizin, Gettingen, for providing facilities for amino acid analysis.

    Keywords

    • (Ratfish pancreas) Holocephalan Insulin C-peptide HPLC
    • The presence of a COOH-terminal extension to the B-chain is consistent with the occurrence of a single base mutation in the region of the gene encoding one of the dibasic residue processing sites

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