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School of Molecular and Biomedical Science (A.D., E.R.B., G.W.B., B.E.F., J.C.W.), The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Division of Health Sciences and Nutrition (A.D., L.J.C.), Adelaide 5000, Australia; and CSIRO Division of Health Sciences and Nutrition (C.W.W.), Parkville 3052, Australia
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: John C. Wallace, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia. E-mail: john.wallace{at}adelaide.edu.au.
The insulin receptor (IR) lacking the alternatively spliced exon 11 (IR-A) is preferentially expressed in fetal and cancer cells. The IR-A has been identified as a high-affinity receptor for insulin and IGF-II but not IGF-I, which it binds with substantially lower affinity. Several cancer cell types that express the IR-A also overexpress IGF-II, suggesting a possible autocrine proliferative loop. To determine the regions of IGF-I and IGF-II responsible for this differential affinity, chimeras were made where the C and D domains were exchanged between IGF-I and IGF-II either singly or together. The abilities of these chimeras to bind to, and activate, the IR-A were investigated. We also investigated the ability of these chimeras to bind and activate the IR exon 11+ isoform (IR-B) and as a positive control, the IGF-I receptor (IGF-1R). We show that the C domain and, to a lesser extent, the D domains represent the principal determinants of the binding differences between IGF-I and IGF-II to IR-A. The C and D domains of IGF-II promote higher affinity binding to the IR-A than the equivalent domains of IGF-I, resulting in an affinity close to that of insulin for the IR-A. The C and D domains also regulate the IR-B binding specificity of the IGFs in a similar manner, although the level of binding for all IGF ligands to IR-B is lower than to IR-A. In contrast, the C and D domains of IGF-I allow higher affinity binding to the IGF-1R than the analogous domains of IGF-II. Activation of IGF-1R by the chimeras reflected their binding affinities whereas the phosphorylation of the two IR isoforms was more complex.
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