Inhibition of tyrosine autophosphorylation of the solubilized insulin receptor by an insulin-stimulating peptide derived from bovine serum albumin

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A polypeptide from a tryptic digest of bovine serum albumin potentiates glucose oxidation stimulated by insulin in isolated rat adipocytes. We studied whether this effect is related to a modification of the insulin receptor kinase. In a solubilized rat adipocytes receptor system, the peptide caused dose-dependent inhibition of the stimulation by insulin of phosphorylation of the 95,000 dalton subunit of insulin receptor. The peptide also inhibited stimulation by vanadate of tyrosine autophosphorylation of the β subunit of the receptor, though it enhanced vanadate-stimulated glucose oxidation. During the phosphorylation reaction, no phosphorylated forms of the peptide could be detected. The peptide had no effect on dephosphorylation of the phosphorylated β subunit of the insulin receptor. These results strongly suggest that the inhibition of phosphorylation by the peptide is due not to either simple substrate competition or activation of phosphoprotein phosphatase, but to specific inhibition of tyrosine-specific protein kinase.

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