An ultra-stable single-chain insulin analog resists thermal inactivation and exhibits biological signaling duration equivalent to the native protein.
Glidden, M.D., Aldabbagh, K., Phillips, N.B., Carr, K., Chen, Y.S., Whittaker, J., Phillips, M., Wickramasinghe, N.P., Rege, N., Swain, M., Peng, Y., Yang, Y., Lawrence, M.C., Yee, V.C., Ismail-Beigi, F., Weiss, M.A.(2018) J Biol Chem 293: 47-68
- PubMed: 29114035 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M117.808626
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5WDM - PubMed Abstract: 
Thermal degradation of insulin complicates its delivery and use. Previous efforts to engineer ultra-stable analogs were confounded by prolonged cellular signaling in vivo , of unclear safety and complicating mealtime therapy. We therefore sought ...