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Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of 
 

Option: 1

Rhizobium


Option: 2

Saccharomyces


Option: 3

Escherichia


Option: 4

Mycobacterium


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As we have already discussed in Biotechnological Application in Medicines - Genetically Engineered Insulin -

 

  • 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.
  • Hence, the correct option is (c).
     
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