The first human hormone produced by recombinant DNA technology is - Vidyadip

MCQ

The first human hormone produced by recombinant $DNA$ technology is

✓
insulin
B
estrogen
C
thyroxin
D
progesterone.

✓

Answer

Correct option: A.

insulin

a
(a) : The recombinant $DNA$ technological processes have made great impact in the area of health care by mass production of safe and more effective therapeutic drugs. In $1983$, Eli Lily, an American company, first prepared two $DNA$ sequences corresponding to $A$ and $B$ chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of Escherichia coli to produce insulin chains. Chains $A$ and $B$ were produced separately, extracted and combined by creating disulfide bonds to form human insulin (humulin).

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