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Insulin meets its receptor

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The hormone insulin has a central role in human physiology, yet the answer to a fundamental biochemical question — how it binds to its cell-surface receptor — has remained elusive, until now. See Letter p.241

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Figure 1: Binding of insulin to its receptor.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Stevan R. Hubbard is in the Structural Biology Program, Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.,

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Hubbard, S. Insulin meets its receptor. Nature 493, 171–172 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/493171a

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