IlGF

Insulin / insulin-like growth factor / relaxin family.
IlGF
SMART accession number:SM00078
Description: Family of proteins including insulin, relaxin, and IGFs. Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration.
Interpro abstract (IPR004825):

The insulin family of proteins (PUBMED:6107857) groups a number of active peptides which are evolutionary related including insulin; relaxin; insulin-like growth factors I and II (PUBMED:2197088); mammalian Leydig cell-specific insulin-like peptide (gene INSL3) (PUBMED:8253799) and early placenta insulin-like peptide (ELIP) (gene INSL4) (PUBMED:8666396); insect prothoracicotropic hormone (bombyxin) ; locust insulin-related peptide (LIRP) (PUBMED:1688797); molluscan insulin-related peptides 1 to 5 (MIP) (PUBMED:1868853); and Caenorhabditis elegans insulin-like peptides (PUBMED:9548970). Structurally, all these peptides consist of two polypeptide chains (A and B) linked by two disulphide bonds. They all share a conserved arrangement of four cysteines in their A chain. The first of these cysteines is linked by a disulphide bond to the third one and the second and fourth cysteines are linked by interchain disulphide bonds to cysteines in the B chain.

Insulin is involved in the regulation of normal glucose homeostasis, as well as other specific physiological functions (PUBMED:6243748). It is synthesised as a prepropeptide from which an endoplasmic reticulum-targeting sequence is cleaved to yield proinsulin. Prosinsulin contains regions A and B separated by an intervening connecting region C. The connecting region is cleaved, liberating the active protein, which contains the A and B chains, held together by 2 disulphide bonds (PUBMED:503234).

GO component:extracellular region (GO:0005576)
GO function:hormone activity (GO:0005179)
Family alignment:
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There are 618 IlGF domains in 618 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.

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