Article
Insulin/IGF-I receptor hybrids: a mechanism for increasing receptor diversity.
Journal of cellular biochemistry - 1 Feb 1992
Moxham C P, Jacobs S
Abstract excerpt
Insulin and IGF-I receptors are homologous disulfide linked alpha 2 beta 2 tetramers. These tetramers are formed biosynthetically when proreceptors containing alpha and beta subunits in a single uninterrupted linear peptide form disulfide linked homodimers and are subsequently proteolytically cleaved at the alpha-beta junctions. Cells expressing both receptors also express hybrid receptors that contain one...
Topics
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Humans
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
- Mutation
- Phosphorylation
- Receptor, Insulin
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Somatomedin
