Proinsulin C-Peptide Analogue Products

Description

Proinsulin, a molecular weight of 8 kDa to 10 kDa, is a precursor of insulin. It has minimum hormonal activity and is converted to insulin by removal of the connecting C-peptide. Mature insulin has 35 fewer amino acids; 4 are removed altogether and the remaining 31 form the C-peptide. The C-peptide is abstracted from the center of the proinsulin sequence; the two other ends (the B chain and A chain) remain connected by disulfide bonds. Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration. It increases cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. It accelerates glycolysis, the pentose phosphate cycle and glycogen synthesis in liver.

Bioinformatics

Uniprot	P01308 P01308 P01308
Product By Gene ID	3630