PMID- 16831875 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20061218 LR - 20210209 IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 281 IP - 36 DP - 2006 Sep 8 TI - Hybrid receptors formed by insulin receptor (IR) and insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-IR) have low insulin and high IGF-1 affinity irrespective of the IR splice variant. PG - 25869-74 AB - Insulin receptor (IR) and insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-IR) are both from the same subgroup of receptor tyrosine kinases that exist as covalently bound receptor dimers at the cell surface. For both IR and IGF-IR, the most described forms are homodimer receptors. However, hybrid receptors consisting of one-half IR and one-half IGF-IR are also present at the cell surface. Two splice variants of IR are expressed that enable formation of two isoforms of the IGF-IR/IR hybrid receptor. In this study, these two splice variants of hybrid receptors were studied with respect to binding affinities of insulin, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), and insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II). Unlike previously published data, in which semipurified receptors have been studied, we found that the two hybrid receptor splice variants had similar binding characteristics with respect to insulin, IGF-I, and IGF-II binding. We studied both semipurified and purified hybrid receptors. In all cases we found that IGF-I had at least 50-fold higher affinity than insulin, irrespective of the splice variant. The binding characteristics of insulin and IGF-I to both splice variants of the hybrid receptors were similar to classical homodimer IGF-IR. FAU - Slaaby, Rita AU - Slaaby R AD - Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Alle, DK-2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark. risl@novonordisk.com FAU - Schaffer, Lauge AU - Schaffer L FAU - Lautrup-Larsen, Inger AU - Lautrup-Larsen I FAU - Andersen, Asser Sloth AU - Andersen AS FAU - Shaw, Allan Christian AU - Shaw AC FAU - Mathiasen, Ida Stenfeldt AU - Mathiasen IS FAU - Brandt, Jakob AU - Brandt J LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20060710 PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 0 (Protein Isoforms) RN - 0 (Recombinant Fusion Proteins) RN - 67763-96-6 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor I) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, IGF Type 1) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, Insulin) SB - IM MH - *Alternative Splicing MH - Animals MH - Cell Line MH - Cricetinae MH - Exons MH - Humans MH - Insulin/*metabolism MH - Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - Protein Isoforms/genetics/*metabolism MH - Receptor, IGF Type 1/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Receptor, Insulin/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism EDAT- 2006/07/13 09:00 MHDA- 2006/12/19 09:00 CRDT- 2006/07/13 09:00 PHST- 2006/07/13 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/12/19 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/07/13 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9258(19)35114-2 [pii] AID - 10.1074/jbc.M605189200 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2006 Sep 8;281(36):25869-74. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M605189200. Epub 2006 Jul 10.