It has an amino acid substitution at position 8 (Aib instead of Ala) to prevent DPP-4 cleavage, and a C-18 fatty acyl chain with a spacer attached at Lysine 26, which gives it strong albumin binding (even more than liraglutides C-16) ( [111] ) ( [48] )
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Cross-species conservation analysis Pairwise Pearsons correlations of mean scaled expression for the 3,000 most variable genes were calculated across species to assess cell population conservation