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Toward the insulin-IGF-I intermediate structures: functional and structural properties of the [TyrB25NMePheB26] insulin mutant.
Biochemistry - 28 Dec 2004
Záková Lenka, Brynda Jirí, Au-Alvarez Oskar, Dodson Eleanor J, Dodson Guy G, Whittingham Jean L, Brzozowski Andrzej M
Abstract excerpt
The origins of differentiation of insulin from insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) are still unknown. To address the problem of a structural and biological switch from the mostly metabolic hormonal activity of insulin to the predominant growth factor activities of IGF-I, an insulin analogue with IGF-I-like structural features has been synthesized. Insulin residues Phe(B25) and Tyr(B26) have been swapped with the...
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