Carrier-protein conjugated synthetic peptide encompassing a sequence within the center region of human insulin. The exact sequence is proprietary.
Alternative Synonym:
IDDM, ILPR, IRDN, IDDM1, IDDM2, PNDM4, MODY10
After removal of the precursor signal peptide, proinsulin is post-translationally cleaved into three peptides: the B chain and A chain peptides, which are covalently linked via two disulfide bonds to form insulin, and C-peptide. Binding of insulin to the insulin receptor (INSR) stimulates glucose uptake. A multitude of mutant alleles with phenotypic effects have been identified. There is a read-through gene, INS-IGF2, which overlaps with this gene at the 5 region and with the IGF2 gene at the 3 region. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.
