The molecular origins of insulin go at least as far back as the simplest unicellular eukaryotes. Apart from animals, insulin-like proteins are also known to exist in Fungi and Protista kingdoms. The human insulin protein is composed of 51 amino acids, and has a molecular mass of 5808 Da. It is a dimer of an A-chain and a B-chain, which are linked together by disulfide bonds.
You pronounce it perry-ko-ray-sis. Perichoresis is a Greek word. Itâs made by a combination of two words: Chora, a noun which means âspaceâ and the verb form, chorein, which means to make space, and peri which means âaroundâ. So perichoresis, roughly translated, means to make space around. More specifically, it refers to the way in which someone or something makes space around itself for others or something else. One simple way to describe perichoresis theologically is to call it the idea of Godâs mutual indwelling. God can be both in Godself and also in us, for example. In a more active sense, it is the idea of God moving in and through someone or something. Itâs like a swirling or, the metaphor Moltmann likes to use, a dance.
This is because the designation of a doctrine of. perichoresis as ânatureâ perichoresis, or âpersonâ perichoresis serves. only to distinguish these two applications of perichoresis in theology, not to circumscribe, or express, what constitutes the substance of the. doctrine in each of these two cases.