Structure and expression of the insulin-like peptide receptor from amphioxus.

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Insulin and the insulin-like growth factors IGF-1 and IGF-II are found in all vertebrates, and these anabolic peptides share primary and tertiary structural features which suggest that they have evolved from a common ancestral gene. We have proposed that an insulin-like peptide (ILP) cDNA recently cloned from the protochodate amphioxus may represent the ancestral gene in that the deduced sequence of ILP contains...

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