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FLASH GENE

Symbol

INS

contributors: mct/npt/shn - updated : 16-10-2010

HGNC name	insulin
HGNC id	6081

FLASH GENE DNA RNA EXPRESSION PROTEIN DISORDER ANIMAL & CELL MODELS

EXPRESSION

Type	restricted

constitutive of

expressed in	(based on citations)
organ(s)	System Organ level 1 Organ level 2 Organ level 3 Organ level 4 Level Pubmed Species Stage Rna symbol Endocrine pancreas

tissue

System Tissue Tissue level 1 Tissue level 2 Level Pubmed Species Stage Rna symbol Epithelial secretory glandular endocrine   Epithelial secretory glandular exocrine

cell lineage

cell lines

fluid/secretion

at STAGE

IMPRINTING	maternally
text	paternally expressed

PROTEIN

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

STRUCTURE

motifs/domains	a B-chain
	a connecting C-peptide
	an A-chain

mono polymer

heteromer , dimer

HOMOLOGY

interspecies	homolog to murine Ins2
	ortholog to ins, Danio rerio
	ortholog to INS, Pan troglodytes

Homologene

FAMILY

insulin family

CATEGORY

signaling hormone

SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION

extracellular

basic FUNCTION	key protein hormone that regulates blood glucose levels and, thus, has widespread impact on lipid and protein metabolism (Jirácek 2010)
	increasing cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino-acids, fatty acids
	regulating the activity of ERK5

CELLULAR PROCESS

PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS

PATHWAY

metabolism

signaling

hormonal

a component

two peptides A and B covalently linked via two disulfide bounds

INTERACTION

DNA	SYT8 gene (

RNA

small molecule

protein	granuphilin (
	leptin (

cell & other

REGULATION

ASSOCIATED DISORDERS

corresponding disease(s)

MODY10 , PNDM4

Susceptibility

to childhood obesity

Variant & Polymorphism repeat	VNTR increasing the risk of childhood obesity

Candidate gene

Marker

Therapy target

ANIMAL & CELL MODELS