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Mol Cell Biol. 1987 August; 7(8): 2718-2727

Structure and ligand specificity of the Drosophila melanogaster insulin receptor.

R Fernandez-Almonacid and O M Rosen

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

ABSTRACT

The insulin-binding and protein tyrosine kinase subunits of the Drosophila melanogaster insulin receptor homolog have been identified and characterized by using antipeptide antibodies elicited to the deduced amino acid sequence of the alpha and beta subunits of the human insulin receptor. In D. melanogaster embryos and cell lines, the insulin receptor contains insulin-binding alpha subunits of 110 or 120 kilodaltons (kDa), a 95-kDa beta subunit that is phosphorylated on tyrosine in response to insulin in intact cells and in vitro, and a 170-kDa protein that may be an incompletely processed receptor. All of the components are synthesized from a proreceptor, joined by disulfide bonds, and exposed on the cell surface. The beta subunit is recognized by an antipeptide antibody elicited to amino acids 1142 to 1162 of the human insulin proreceptor, and the alpha subunit is recognized by an antipeptide antibody elicited to amino acids 702 to 723 of the human proreceptor. Of the polypeptide ligands tested, only insulin reacts with the D. melanogaster receptor. Insulinlike growth factors type I and II, epidermal growth factor, and the silkworm insulinlike prothoracicotropic hormone are unable to stimulate autophosphorylation. Thus despite the evolutionary divergence of vertebrates and invertebrates, the essential features of the structure and intrinsic functions of the insulin receptor have been remarkably conserved.

Mol Cell Biol. 1987 August; 7(8): 2718-2727




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