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The human proteome represents

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the full number of proteins that are expressed by all the hereditary information in our DNA

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Glucose absorption occurs where?

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  • some in mouth across thin epithelial
    surfaces that are intimately associated with
    underlying blood vessels or capillaries
  • most in the microvilli cells of the small intestine
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glucose metabolism leads to

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an increase in insulin gene transcription and mRNA translation

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4
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translated polypeptide that is coded in the insulin gene length

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110 amino acids

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Functional insulin protein that is secreted from the beta cells of the pancreas length

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51 amino acids

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6
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Who determined the structure of the functional
insulin protein?

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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Phosphorylation

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a reversible post-translational modification that involves the covalent attachment of a phosphate group to serine, threonine or tyrosine amino acid residues in a protein by enzymes called kinase

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methylation

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covalent addition of a methyl group

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9
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acetylation

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addition of an acetyl group to a specific amino
acid residue in a protein

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