Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 1S
Many human proteins, such as hemoglobin, are only functional as an assembly of multiple subunits. Assembly of these functional units occurs within the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus of a eukaryotic cell. Discuss what limitations, if any, exist to the large-scale production of genetically engineered hemoglobin.
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