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Title: Heterologous transmembrane signaling by a human insulin receptor-v-ros hybrid in Chinese hamster ovary cells

Journal Article · · Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States)

A hybrid receptor molecule composed of the extracellular ligand-binding domain of the human insulin receptor and the transmembrane and cytoplasmic (protein-tyrosine kinase) domains of the chicken sarcoma virus UR2 transforming protein p68/sup gag-ros/ has been constructed and expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The hybrid is processed normally into ..cap alpha.. and hybrid ..beta.. subunits, is expressed on the cell surface at high levels, and binds insulin with near-wild-type affinity. Furthermore, insulin stimulates the phosphorylation on tyrosine resides of the hybrid ..beta..-subunit in vivo and the phosphorylation of an exogeneous substrate (poly(Glu,Tyr)) in vitro. Thus the hybrid is capable of heterologous transmembrane signaling. However, the hybrid mediates neither the insulin-activated uptake of 2-deoxyglucose nor the incorporation of (/sup 3/H)thymidine into DNA, suggesting that the physiological response(s) mediated by ligand-activated protein-tyrosine kinases may utilize distinct intracellular mechanisms for postreceptor signaling

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, San Francisco (USA)
OSTI ID:
5209820
Journal Information:
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States), Vol. 84:15
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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