When secreted insulin joins in two’s to form dimmers and then in six’s to form hexamers. This combination takes place in the presence of zinc. The peptide chains then form 2 dimensional and ...

Insulin is a protein chain or peptide hormone. There are 51 amino acids in an insulin molecule. It has a molecular weight of 5808 Da. Insulin is produced in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.

“Our findings suggest that exposure to a peptide made by gut bacteria that ... and T cells directed at an epitope in the B-chain of insulin (insB:9–23). What triggers this autoimmune response ...