Journal of Biological Chemistry
Volume 272, Issue 17, 25 April 1997, Pages 11439-11443
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Cell Biology and Metabolism
The 60-kDa Phosphotyrosine Protein in Insulin-treated Adipocytes Is a New Member of the Insulin Receptor Substrate Family*

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A 60-kDa protein that undergoes rapid tyrosine phosphorylation in response to insulin and then binds phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase has been previously described in adipocytes and hepatoma cells. We have isolated this protein, referred to as pp60, from rat adipocytes, obtained the sequences of tryptic peptides, and cloned its cDNA. The predicted amino acid sequence of pp60 reveals that it contains an N-terminal pleckstrin homology domain, followed by a phosphotyrosine binding domain, followed by a group of likely tyrosine phosphorylation sites, four of which are in the YXXM motif that binds to the SH2 domains of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. The overall architecture of pp60 is thus the same as that of insulin receptor substrates 1 and 2 (IRS-1 and IRS-2), and furthermore both the pleckstrin homology and phosphotyrosine binding domains are highly homologous (about 50% identical amino acids) to these domains in both IRS-1 and IRS-2. Thus, pp60 is a new member of the IRS family, which we have designated IRS-3.

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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant DK 42816. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank™/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) U93880.