Question

Explain how insulin can be produced using recombinant dna technology

Answer 1

Explanation:

insulin consists of two short polypeptide chains linked by disulphide bridges.

in 1983,Eli Lilly an American company prepared two DNA sequences corresponding to chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of E.coli to produce insulin chain . Both chains were produced separately , extracted and combined by creating sulphide bonds to form human insulin.