Insulin receptor substrate
ID: insulin-receptor-substrate
An insulin receptor substrate is a docking protein phosphorylated by the activated insulin receptor. Its phosphotyrosine residues recruit downstream signaling proteins, including SH2 domain-containing components of phosphoinositide 3-kinase. This connects reception to the pathway described under insulin, rather than making the insulin receptor substrate another extracellular ligand.[ref]
Cell signaling by receptor-tyrosine kinases by Mark A Lemmon and Joseph Schlessinger. “Linking RTK activation to cell signaling”: IRS docking proteins and Figure 3A
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