The action of carboxypeptidase on insulin and acetylinsulin has been investigated. The results of previous workers that the removal of C-terminal alanine does not affect the biological activity of the insulin molecule, but that removal of C-terminal asparagine does so, have been confirmed.
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M. V. Patwardhan (1960) studied this question.
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