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Prediction of the association state of insulin using spectral parameters.
Journal of pharmaceutical sciences - 1 Apr 2003
Uversky Vladimir N, Garriques Liza Nielsen, Millett Ian S, Frokjaer Sven, Brange Jens, Doniach Sebastian, Fink Anthony L
Abstract excerpt
Human insulin exists in different association states, from monomer to hexamer, depending on the conditions. In the presence of zinc the "normal" state is a hexamer. The structural properties of 20 variants of human insulin were studied by near-UV circular dichroism, fluorescence spectroscopy, and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The mutants showed different degrees of association (monomer, dimers, tetramers,...
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