Communications Biology (Feb 2023)

Enhanced hexamerization of insulin via assembly pathway rerouting revealed by single particle studies

  • Freja Bohr,
  • Søren S. -R. Bohr,
  • Narendra Kumar Mishra,
  • Nicolás Sebastian González-Foutel,
  • Henrik Dahl Pinholt,
  • Shunliang Wu,
  • Emilie Milan Nielsen,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Magnus Kjaergaard,
  • Knud J. Jensen,
  • Nikos S. Hatzakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04386-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Single-molecule studies reveal the pathway organization of self-assembly and disassembly of insulin hexamers and how this is remodeled by regulatory cues and formulations. The abundance of all oligomeric species as well their kinetics are assessed.