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Mature insulin is provided with two short polypeptide chains. Among them shortest is

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A chain
b
B chain
c
C peptide
d
Signaling peptide
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Mature insulin is provided with two short polypeptide chains (A and B). Among them shortest is A chain. It has 21 amino acids. B chain has 31 amino acids.


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Select the true statements from the following regarding insulin.      

(a) Insulin from animal source, may develop allergy in some patients.

(b) Recombinant insulin does not induce unwanted immunological responses.

(c) Chain A and chain B are linked together by disulphide bridges.

(d) C-peptide is absent in proinsulin.

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