You are attempting to clone the human insulin gene into E.Coli so that you can have access to unlimited human insulin for medical use. Insulin is produced in pacreas, but you have human skin cells to work with.
4.) So, you find the gene. Now comes the fun part, this gene must have certain features engineered into it or out of it. For you to accomplish what you need (hint it has to function in a prokaryopte now) Outline these features and briefly describe them.
Expression of eukaryotic gene is different from the prokaryotic gene. Difference comes in the forms of introns and post translational modifications. Eukaryotic gene contain introns, which have to be removed from the premature mRNA to make it mature mRNA in the post translational modifications.
This problem is solved by making a cDNA (complementary DNA) from the fully functional mRNA of eukaryotic gene.This cDNA is introduced in the prokaryotic genome to obtain desired amount of protein.
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