Diabetes, Vol 37, Issue 5 637-644, Copyright © 1988 by American Diabetes Association

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Developmental regulation of insulin and type I insulin-like growth factor receptors and absence of type II receptors in chicken embryo tissues

L Bassas, MA Lesniak, J Serrano, J Roth and F de Pablo
Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Chicken embryos are a suitable model for studying the role of insulin, insulin-like growth factors I and II (IGF-I and IGF-II), and their receptors in embryogenesis. We show that plasma membranes from heart, liver, and limb buds, as reported earlier for brain, each have a distinct developmental profile for insulin receptors and type I IGF receptors. In heart and limb buds, IGF binding is higher than insulin binding, but in liver, insulin receptors dominate. Expression of these receptors is, therefore, developmentally regulated and tissue specific. The wide distribution of high-affinity receptors capable of mediating insulin and IGF actions in early organogenesis further supports the possible importance of this family of peptides for differentiation and growth in vertebrates. In all chicken embryo tissues studied, both IGF-I and IGF-II appeared to bind to a type I IGF receptor. We have not detected a receptor with the peptide binding and structural characteristics of the mammalian type II IGF receptor. The type II receptor was absent in embryos, liver from newly hatched chicks, and adipocytes from older chicks, which suggests that the chicken may lack this subtype of IGF receptor.
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