The bacterium used by 'Eli Lilly', an American Company, to produce insulin chains is: |
Bacillus thuringiensis Agrobacterium tumefaciens Escherichia coli Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Escherichia coli |
The correct answer is Option (3) - Escherichia coli Insulin is composed of two peptide chains referred to as the A chain and B chain. A and B chains are linked together by two disulfide bonds, and an additional disulfide is formed within the A chain. In most species, the A chain consists of 21 amino acids and the B chain of 30 amino acids. In 1983, Eli Lilly an American company prepared two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B, chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of E. coli to produce insulin chains. Chains A and B were produced separately, extracted and combined by creating disulfide bonds to form human insulin. |