Conformation of the insulin receptor
Posted by Helena Jambor, on 5 March 2018
A few days back over dinner at a CNV gathering, Theresia Gutmann from the Coskun lab casually told me about her PhD work. In collaboration with the Rockefeller University NYC, Theresia had visualized the changing conformation of the human insulin receptor upon insulin binding (paper). I made a sketchnote summarizing their discovery of a conformational switch that could explain how the insulin receptor transforms information about extracellular ligand binding into an intracellular activity to react by taking up glucose!
Original paper Gutmann, Kim et al. (2018): Visualization of ligand-induced transmembrane signaling in the full-length human insulin receptor. Journal of Cell Biology, DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201711047
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