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Thread: LADA, Type 1, genetic differences ?
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Old 05-21-2007, 01:47 PM
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Wouldn't the antibodies attack Humalin R insulin then? From what I remember from medical immunolgy - the antibodies only attack a certain sub sequence in a protien (not iterating through each aa) - I would imagine this would be the action site<?> of the enzyme in this case.
Yeah, that's true. When I said they act on proteins or carbohydrates, I meant that they bind to a particular sequence, not the entire thing - I was just trying to avoid a complex description.
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