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Defects in insulin binding and autophosphorylation of erythrocyte insulin receptors in patients with syndromes of severe insulin resistance and their parents.

Abstract
Genetic forms of severe insulin resistance are often characterized by alterations in binding and/or kinase properties of the insulin receptor. To evaluate whether alterations in insulin receptor kinase of erythrocytes can be used as genetic markers, we studied patients with two apparently inherited conditions of severe insulin resistance (leprechaunism and the type A syndrome of insulin resistance) and their families. In the two propositi, [125I]insulin binding to intact erythrocytes was decreased by 64% and 45%, respectively. This was primarily due to a decrease in receptor number and was found in intact cells and solubilization of the receptors. Similar insulin binding defects were found on monocytes. Insulin-stimulated tyrosine kinase activity of the solubilized receptor from erythrocytes was also decreased and to a similar extent as binding. Parents of neither patient had clinical manifestations of leprechaunism or the type A syndrome. Furthermore, no alterations in insulin receptor binding or kinase activity were found in erythrocytes from the mothers. Insulin binding in the father of the type A patient was also normal, whereas the father of the leprechaun had decreased receptor affinity. Receptors extracted from the both fathers' cells had a 40-60% decrease in maximal insulin-stimulated phosphorylation and significant rightward shifts of the insulin dose-response curves (ED50, 141 and 42 ng/mL, respectively; control ED50, 16 ng/mL). The finding of biochemical defects in insulin receptor kinase activity in clinically unaffected parents of patients suggests that these alterations may be useful genetic markers and more sensitive than insulin binding studies for studying pattern of inheritance of these diseases.
AuthorsF Grigorescu, V Herzberg, G King, M Meistas, J Elders, T Frazer, C R Kahn
JournalThe Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (J Clin Endocrinol Metab) Vol. 64 Issue 3 Pg. 549-56 (Mar 1987) ISSN: 0021-972X [Print] United States
PMID3029156 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Insulin
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
  • Receptor, Insulin
Topics
  • Acanthosis Nigricans (genetics, metabolism)
  • Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors (metabolism)
  • Child
  • Dwarfism (genetics, metabolism)
  • Erythrocytes (analysis)
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hyperglycemia (genetics, metabolism)
  • Insulin (metabolism)
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Phosphorylation
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases (deficiency)
  • Receptor, Insulin (metabolism)

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