General Information

  • ID:  hor002129
  • Uniprot ID:  P67970
  • Protein name:  Insulin B chain
  • Gene name:  INS
  • Organism:  Gallus gallus (Chicken)
  • Family:  Insulin family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  NA
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Gallus (genus), Phasianinae (subfamily), Phasianidae (family), Galliformes (order), Galloanserae (superorder), Neognathae (infraclass), Aves (class), Coelurosauria, Theropoda, Saurischia, Dinosauria, Archosauria, Archelosauria, Sauria, Sauropsida, Amniota, Tetrapoda, Dipnotetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii (superclass), Euteleostomi, Teleostomi, Gnathostomata, Vertebrata, Craniata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Deuterostomia, Bilateria, Eumetazoa, Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta, Eukaryota (superkingdom), cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  GO:0005179 hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0003407 neural retina development; GO:0005975 carbohydrate metabolic process; GO:0006006 glucose metabolic process; GO:0007165 signal transduction; GO:0008283 cell population proliferation; GO:0010467 gene expression; GO:0010628 positive regulation of gene expression; GO:0043066 negative regulation of apoptotic process
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region; GO:0005615 extracellular space

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  AANQHLCGSHLVEALYLVCGERGFFYSPKA
  • Length:  30(25-54)
  • Propeptide:  MALWIRSLPLLALLVFSGPGTSYAAANQHLCGSHLVEALYLVCGERGFFYSPKARRDVEQPLVSSPLRGEAGVLPFQQEEYEKVKRGIVEQCCHNTCSLYQLENYCN
  • Signal peptide:  MALWIRSLPLLALLVFSGPGTSYA
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration. It increases cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. It accelerates glycolysis, the pentose phosphate cycle, and glycogen synthesis in liver.
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NA
  • Target:  INSR
  • Target Unid:  A0A1D5P6T3
  • IC50: NA
  • EC50: NA
  • ED50: NA
  • kd: NA
  • Half life: NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  NA
  • Structure ID:  AF-P67970-F1(AlphaFold_DB_ID)
  • Structure: (PDB_ID-from https://www.rcsb.org/; AlphaFold_DB_ID-from https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/; hordbxxxxxx_AF2.pdb was predicted structure by AlphaFold2; hordbxxxxxx_ESM.pdb was predicted structure by ESMFold)
  •    hor002129_AF2.pdbhor002129_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 379922 Formula: C148H222N40O41S2
Absent amino acids: DIMTW Common amino acids: AL
pI: 7.42 Basic residues: 4
Polar residues: 10 Hydrophobic residues: 12
Hydrophobicity: 18.67 Boman Index: -1633
Half-Life: 4.4 hour Half-Life Yeast: >20 hour
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 84.67
Instability Index: 2732.33 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 3105
Absorbance 280nm: 107.07

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  5949593
  • Title:  Species Variation in the Amino Acid Sequence of Insulin