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  • Title: Insulin receptor monoclonal antibodies that mimic insulin action without activating tyrosine kinase.
    Author: Hawley DM, Maddux BA, Patel RG, Wong KY, Mamula PW, Firestone GL, Brunetti A, Verspohl E, Goldfine ID.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1989 Feb 15; 264(5):2438-44. PubMed ID: 2536710.
    Abstract:
    HTC rat hepatoma cells were transfected with human insulin receptor cDNA to a level of 40,000 receptors/cell. In these cells, as well as in nontransfected cells, insulin stimulated the uptake of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid. Two monoclonal antibodies directed against the human insulin receptor alpha subunit, like insulin, stimulated amino acid uptake in transfected HTC cells, but not in nontransfected HTC cells. The antibodies, in contrast to insulin, failed to stimulate insulin receptor tyrosine kinase activity, both in intact transfected cells and in cell free extracts prepared from them. These data suggest, therefore, that activation of insulin receptor tyrosine kinase may not be an obligatory step in all of the transmembrane signaling mechanisms of the insulin receptor.
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