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Kenneth S. Polonsky
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The biosynthesis of insulin in the pancreatic β cell.
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IVS, intervening segment or intron: PRE, prepeptide segment or “signal” peptide; B,C, and A, peptide segments of proinsulin (1 ). Reproduced with permission from the New England Journal of Medicine (1 ); adapted from an article by Steiner and Rubenstein (2 ).
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