title: Human insulin receptor substrate-2: gene organization and promoter characterization.
abstract: Insulin receptor substrate-2 (IRS-2) belongs to a family of cytoplasmic adaptor proteins, which link insulin, IGF-1, and cytokine receptor tyrosine kinases to signaling pathways regulating metabolism, growth, and differentiation (1-3). IRS-2-deficient mice display all characteristics of type 2 diabetes, suggesting that dysfunction of the IRS-2 gene may contribute to the pathogenesis of human type 2 diabetes (4). Based on its progesterone inducibility, we have recently cloned and sequenced a full-length human IRS-2 cDNA containing an open reading frame (ORF) of 4,014 bp and 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (UTRs) of 516 and 2,466 bp (5). Although the IRS-2 gene has previously been thought to lack introns within the coding region (6,7), the amino acid sequence predicted from our cDNA sequence differed at its very COOH-terminal end from an IRS-2 protein sequence derived from genomic IRS-2 sequences. Therefore, we carefully analyzed the genomic structure of the IRS-2 gene and found that the IRS-2 gene contains an intron that disrupts the ORF. Characterization of promoter and 5'-flanking regions of IRS-2 by sequencing, reporter gene assays, and chromatin structure analysis suggests that elements conferring progesterone inducibility are not located immediately upstream of the gene promoter.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Zellbioogie (Tumorforschung), Universitätsklinikum, Essen, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vassen
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wegrzyn
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Klein-Hitpass
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics*; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D055504:Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic
chemical_list: C526297:IRS2 protein, human; D055504:Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; C526298:Irs2 protein, mouse; D010750:Phosphoproteins