FUNCTION: Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration. It increases cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. It accelerates glycolysis, the pentose phosphate cycle, and glycogen synthesis in liver.
Temperature Dependency
PH Dependency
Pathway
nucleotide Binding
Features
Beta strand (5); Disulfide bond (3); Erroneous gene model prediction (1); Helix (5); Natural variant (27); Peptide (2); Propeptide (1); Signal peptide (1); Turn (3)
Keywords
3D-structure;Alternative splicing;Carbohydrate metabolism;Cleavage on pair of basic residues;Diabetes mellitus;Direct protein sequencing;Disease variant;Disulfide bond;Glucose metabolism;Hormone;Pharmaceutical;Reference proteome;Secreted;Signal