Insulin or a closely related molecule is native to Escherichia coli.

Metabolism of Isolated Fat Cells

1964 • 4,431 citations

IMMUNOASSAY OF ENDOGENOUS PLASMA INSULIN IN MAN

1960 • 2,983 citations

Insulin Receptors in the Liver: Specific Binding of [ ¹²⁵ I]Insulin to the Plasma Membrane and Its Relation to Insulin Bioactivity

1971 • 494 citations

A Simple Free Fat Cell Bioassay for Insulin

1974 • 365 citations

Evolutionary origins of vertebrate hormones: substances similar to mammalian insulins are native to unicellular eukaryotes.

1980 • 281 citations

Methods in investigative and diagnostic endocrinology

1975 • 242 citations

Mapping of the residues responsible for the negative cooperativity of the receptor-binding region of insulin

1978 • 223 citations

Myxobacteria: Cell Interactions, Genetics, and Development

1979 • 184 citations

The Evolution of the Earliest Cells

1978 • 165 citations

Insulin is ubiquitous in extrapancreatic tissues of rats and humans.

1980 • 140 citations

Aggregation and Differentiation in the Cellular Slime Molds

1971 • 114 citations

Insulin in Insects and Annelids

1981 • 107 citations

Fungal Sex Hormones

1974 • 85 citations

Production of choriogonadotropin-like factor by a microorganism.

1979 • 69 citations

Naloxone-reversible effect of opioids on pinocytosis in Amoeba proteus

1979 • 66 citations

Epinephrine and serotonin activation of adenyl cyclase from Tetrahymena pyriformis

1972 • 58 citations

New Techniques in Tumor Localization and Radioimmunoassay

1975 • 10 citations

Dr. Best, insulin, and molecular evolution

1979 • 6 citations

Insulin action on Escherichia coli Regulation of the adenylate cyclase and phosphotransferase enzymes

1978 • 4 citations