Crystalline insulin

Abstract
Crystalline insulin separated from phosphate buffer in presence of ZnCl2 and containing 0.7% ash was converted by electrodialysis and precipitation from dilute HCl soln. with acetone into insulin hydrochloride having 0.02% ash. Samples of this material were crystallized from ammonium acetate buffer in presence of (a) ZnCl2, (b) CdCl2, (c) CoCl2, yielding products having (a) Zn 0.52%, (b) Cd 0.77%, (c) Co 0.44%. The fact that these metals occur in crystalline insulin in ca. the proportions of their atomic wts. indicates that they are probably chemically combined.

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