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. 1988 Feb 1;249(3):721–726. doi: 10.1042/bj2490721

Specific binding of insulin-like growth factors 1 and 2 to the type 1 and type 2 receptors respectively.

F J Ballard 1, M Ross 1, F M Upton 1, G L Francis 1
PMCID: PMC1148766  PMID: 2965574

Abstract

1. Competitive binding and receptor cross-linking experiments have been used to examine the receptor-ligand interactions between three bovine insulin-like growth factors (IGF) and monolayer cultures of myoblasts and fibroblasts. 2. Labelled IGF-2 bound predominantly to the type 2 receptor with negligible label cross-linked to the type 1 receptor, notwithstanding the ability of IGF-2 to compete effectively for the binding of IGF-1 to the type 1 receptor. Approx. 100-fold higher concentrations of IGF-1 or the N-terminal truncated (des-Gly-Pro-Glu) IGF-1 (-3N:IGF-1) were required to produce competition equivalent to IGF-2. 3. All IGF peptides, but especially IGF-1, enhanced the binding of labelled IGF-2 to the type 2 receptor of lung fibroblasts. This unusual effect was probably a consequence of the displacement of labelled IGF-2 otherwise bound to a medium protein, a conclusion supported by the demonstration of a 38 kDa membrane protein cross-linked to labelled IGF-2. 4. Both IGF-1 and -3N:IGF-1 bound only to the type 1 IGF receptor in L6 myoblasts, rat vascular smooth-muscle cells and human lung fibroblasts. The peptides competed for labelled IGF-1 binding with potencies in the order -3N:IGF-1 greater than IGF-1 greater than IGF-2 much greater than insulin. Since the IGF peptides were equipotent in skin fibroblasts, it was proposed that the apparently higher affinity of -3N:IGF-1 for receptors in the other cell types was instead a consequence of a low affinity of this peptide for the competing 38 kDa binding protein.

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