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IGF1R

Chr 15q26.3

insulin like growth factor 1 receptor

Aliases:
JTK13, CD221, IGFIR, MGC18216, IGFR
MANE:
ENST00000650285.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • IUGR and IGF abnormalities

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Monogenic short stature

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Severe microcephaly

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Silver Russell syndrome

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Rare syndromic craniosynostosis or isolated multisuture synostosis

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • growth delay due to insulin-like growth factor I resistance

    0.81
  • Abnormality of the skeletal system

    0.59
  • Graves ophthalmopathy

    0.57
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.52
  • hereditary disease

    0.52
  • Growth delay

    0.50
  • gout

    0.50
  • type 2 diabetes mellitus

    0.49
  • atrial fibrillation

    0.49
  • prostate carcinoma

    0.46

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor

Receptor tyrosine kinase which mediates actions of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1). Binds IGF1 with high affinity and IGF2 and insulin (INS) with a lower affinity. The activated IGF1R is involved in cell growth and survival control. IGF1R is crucial for tumor transformation and survival of malignant cell. Ligand binding activates the receptor kinase, leading to receptor autophosphorylation, and tyrosines phosphorylation of multiple substrates, that function as signaling adapter proteins including, the insulin-receptor substrates (IRS1/2), Shc and 14-3-3 proteins. Phosphorylation of IRSs proteins lead to the activation of two main signaling pathways: the PI3K-AKT/PKB pathway and the Ras-MAPK pathway. The result of activating the MAPK pathway is increased cellular proliferation, whereas activating the PI3K pathway inhibits apoptosis and stimulates protein synthesis. Phosphorylated IRS1 can activate the 85 kDa regulatory subunit of PI3K (PIK3R1), leading to activation of several downstream substrates, including protein AKT/PKB. AKT phosphorylation, in turn, enhances protein synthesis through mTOR activation and triggers the antiapoptotic effects of IGFIR through phosphorylation and inactivation of BAD. In parallel to PI3K-driven signaling, recruitment of Grb2/SOS by phosphorylated IRS1 or Shc leads to recruitment of Ras and activation of the ras-MAPK pathway. In addition to these two main signaling pathways IGF1R signals also through the Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription pathway (JAK/STAT). Phosphorylation of JAK proteins can lead to phosphorylation/activation of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) proteins. In particular activation of STAT3, may be essential for the transforming activity of IGF1R. The JAK/STAT pathway activates gene transcription and may be responsible for the transforming activity. JNK kinases can also be activated by the IGF1R. IGF1 exerts inhibiting activities on JNK activation via phosphorylation and inhibition of MAP3K5/ASK1, which is able to directly associate with the IGF1R

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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