The amide groups of insulin in Biochemical Journal 59, 1955, pp. 509-518 + Disulphide interchange reactions + The disulphide bonds of insulin + The Structure of Pig and Sheep Insulins in Biochemical Journal 60, 1955, pp. 535-540; pp. 541-556; pp. 546-565
1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION BOUND EXTRACTS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF THE STRUCTURE OF INSULIN (Garrison-Morton, 1207). "Unraveling insulin, a hormone that regulates glucose and other nutrients, was the culmination of ten years of study requiring his development of new methodology for ascertaining the make-up of amino acids and proteins, and allowed the affordable synthetic production of insulin" (NNDB). Sanger's work, the first sequencing of any protein, "revealed that a protein has a definite constant, genetically determined sequence -- and yet a sequence with no general rule for its assembly. Therefore it had to have a code" (Judson, Eighth Day of Creation, 188). Sanger was a British biochemist whose discoveries have been fundamental to the development of modern biological science. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1958 for the work evidenced in these papers. Item #386
CONDITION & DETAILS: All the papers have been handsomely bound in brown cloth over green linen; gilt lettered at the spine and ruled on the boards. The title pages of both Volume 59 and Volume 60 have been bound in. Tightly and very solidly bound. Bright and clean throughout.
Price: $450.00