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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 18, 13754-13758, May 4, 2007

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Complementation Analysis Demonstrates That Insulin Cross-links Both Subunits in a Truncated Insulin Receptor Dimer^*

From the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

The insulin receptor is a homodimer composed of two half receptors. Scanning mutagenesis studies have identified key residues important for insulin binding in the L1 domain (amino acids 1-150) and C-terminal region (amino acids 704-719) of the subunit. However, it has not been shown whether insulin interacts with these two sites within the same chain or whether it cross-links a site from each subunit in the dimer to achieve high affinity binding. Here we have tested the contralateral binding mechanism by analyzing truncated insulin receptor dimers (midi-hIRs) that contain complementary mutations in each subunit. Midi-hIRs containing Ala¹⁴, Ala⁶⁴, or Gly⁷¹⁴ mutations were fused with Myc or FLAG epitopes at the C terminus and were expressed separately by transient transfection. Immunoblots showed that R14A+FLAG, F64A+FLAG, and F714G+Myc mutant midi-hIRs were expressed in the medium but insulin binding activity was not detected. However, after co-transfection with R14A+FLAG/F714G+Myc or F64A+FLAG/F714G+Myc, hybrid dimers were obtained with a marked increase in insulin binding activity. Competitive displacement assays revealed that the hybrid mutant receptors bound insulin with the same affinity as wild type and also displayed curvilinear Scatchard plots. In addition, when hybrid mutant midi-hIR was covalently cross-linked with ¹²⁵I(A14)-insulin and reduced, radiolabeled monomer was immunoprecipitated only with anti-FLAG, demonstrating that insulin was bound asymmetrically. These results demonstrate that a single insulin molecule can contact both subunits in the insulin receptor dimer during high affinity binding and this property may be an important feature for receptor signaling.

Received for publication, January 25, 2007

^* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 DK013914 and P60 DK020595 and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Medicine, 5820 East 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Tel.: 773-702-1334; Fax: 773-702-4292; E-mail: dfsteine{at}uchicago.edu.

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