List the advantages of recombinant insul | Class 12 Biology Chapter Biotechnology and its Application, Biotechnology and its Application NCERT Solutions

Insulin is a polypeptide hormone that is used for saving the diabetic patients due to failure of insulin secretion in the pancreas or when the patient have low glucose level, then insulin injection is given and is composed of 51 amino acids arranged in two chains that are linked together by two disulfide bridges. It is produced by the β- cells of the islets of Langerhans and it favors the synthesis of glycogen, triacylglycerols and proteins. Then, mature insulin is obtained by processing the pro- hormone that contains extra peptide known as C- peptide. Then, the C- peptide stretch of chain is removed during the conversion of prohormone to mature hormone (maturation process). A number of human disorders that can be traced to the malfunction of the proteins that synthesized in the body which mainly can be treated by using the human proteins. But there are not many disorders can be treated with human or animal proteins, there is always the possibility of side effects like an allergic response. So, the production of recombinant pharmaceuticals occurred like recombinant insulin. There are some advantages of recombinant insulin which are as follows:

1. Recombinant insulin does not cause any allergic reactions or other types of reactions to foreign proteins.
2. This stopped slaughtered of large number of animals.