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Functional Insulin differs from its pre-...

Functional Insulin differs from its pre-hormonal form. How?

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Pro-Insulin contains A and B segments linked by a C - chain and preceded by a leader sequence. Whereas the functional Insulin contains only A and B chain formed by the excision of C-chain and leaders sequence after translation.
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