Insulin-induced gene 1 protein

Insulin induced gene 1, also known as INSIG1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the INSIG1 gene.

INSIG1
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 4J81
Identifiers
Aliases	INSIG1, CL-6, CL6, insulin induced gene 1
External IDs	OMIM: 602055; MGI: 1916289; HomoloGene: 4047; GeneCards: INSIG1; OMA:INSIG1 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 7 (human) Band 7q36.3 Start 155,297,776 bp End 155,310,235 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 5 (mouse) Band 5|5 B1 Start 28,276,361 bp End 28,283,660 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in cartilage tissue right lobe of liver skin of thigh Epithelium of choroid plexus superior vestibular nucleus mucosa of paranasal sinus retinal pigment epithelium islet of Langerhans secondary oocyte tibia Top expressed in epithelium of small intestine secondary oocyte migratory enteric neural crest cell ciliary body left lobe of liver parotid gland olfactory epithelium submandibular gland genital tubercle cumulus cell More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function protein binding Cellular component integral component of membrane SREBP-SCAP-Insig complex endoplasmic reticulum membrane membrane endoplasmic reticulum Biological process roof of mouth development steroid metabolic process negative regulation of fat cell differentiation sterol biosynthetic process negative regulation of fatty acid biosynthetic process lipid metabolism cholesterol metabolic process response to sterol depletion cranial suture morphogenesis negative regulation of cargo loading into COPII-coated vesicle inner ear morphogenesis middle ear morphogenesis SREBP signaling pathway cholesterol biosynthetic process cell population proliferation triglyceride metabolic process negative regulation of steroid biosynthetic process cellular response to sterol SREBP-SCAP complex retention in endoplasmic reticulum cholesterol homeostasis negative regulation of protein exit from endoplasmic reticulum Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3638 231070 Ensembl ENSG00000186480 ENSMUSG00000045294 UniProt O15503 Q8BGI3 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001346590 NM_001346591 NM_001346592 NM_001346593 NM_001346594 NM_005542 NM_198336 NM_198337 NM_153526 RefSeq (protein) NP_001333519 NP_001333520 NP_001333521 NP_001333522 NP_001333523 NP_005533 NP_938150 NP_938151 NP_705746 Location (UCSC) Chr 7: 155.3 – 155.31 Mb Chr 5: 28.28 – 28.28 Mb PubMed search
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INSIG1 is short for insulin-induced gene 1; it is located on chromosome 7 (7q36). This human gene encodes for a transmembrane protein of 277 amino acids with probably 6 transmembrane domains. It is localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and seems to be expressed in all tissues, especially in liver. This gene is called an insulin-induced gene because the molecule insulin can regulate it. Importantly, the protein encoded by this gene plays a critical role in regulating cholesterol concentrations in cells.

Function

1. INSIG1 plays an important role in the SREBP-mediated regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis: by binding to the sterol-sensing domain of SCAP (SREBP cleavage activating protein) it makes the SCAP/SREBP complex stay longer in the ER, thus prohibiting SCAP from carrying activated SREBP to the golgi complex. This ultimately blocks SREBP from acting as a transcription factor for the SRE in the promoter region of the HMG-CoA-reductase gene and results in a decreased expression of HMG-CoA-reductase.
2. INSIG1 also binds to the sterol-sensing domain of HMG-CoA-reductase, resulting in the enzyme's increased degradation.

Both functions require the binding of INSIG1 protein via the same site.

There are two other proteins whose sterol-binding sites show a great similarity to the ones of SCAP and HMG-CoA-reductase and who might thus be regulated by INSIG1 as well:

• Niemann-Pick disease type C1 protein, which participates in the intracellular movement of cholesterol
• Patched, the receptor for Hedgehog, a protein that contains covalently bound cholesterol

Oxysterols regulate cholesterol homeostasis through liver X receptor (LXR) and sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) mediated signaling pathway. This protein binds to the sterol-sensing domains of SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP) and HMG CoA reductase, and is essential for the sterol-mediated trafficking of the two proteins. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been observed.

Regulation

INSIG1 is regulated by insulin and highly expressed in liver.

Sequence (277 AA)

MPRLHDHFWS CSCAHSARRR GPPRASTAGL PPKVGEMINV SVSGPSLLAA HGAPDADPAP RGRSAAMSGP EPGSPYPNTW HHRLLQRSLV LFSVGVVLAL VLNLLQIQRN VTLFPEEVIA TIFSSAWWVP PCCGTAAAVV GLLYPCIDSH LGEPHKFKRE WASVMRCIAV FVGINHASAK LDFANNVQLS LTLAALSLGL WWTFDRSRSG LGLGITIAFL ATLITQFLVY NGVYQYTSPD FLYIRSWLPC IFFSGGVTVG NIGRQLAMGV PEKPHSD

Synonyms

CL-6, INSIG-1, Insulin-induced gene 1 protein, MGC1405 (source: iHOP)

Interactions

INSIG1 has been shown to interact with SREBF2.

Further reading

• Peng Y, Schwarz EJ, Lazar MA, Genin A, Spinner NB, Taub R (Aug 1997). "Cloning, human chromosomal assignment, and adipose and hepatic expression of the CL-6/INSIG1 gene". Genomics. 43 (3): 278–84. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4821. PMID 9268630.
• Kaneda A, Kaminishi M, Nakanishi Y, Sugimura T, Ushijima T (Jul 2002). "Reduced expression of the insulin-induced protein 1 and p41 Arp2/3 complex genes in human gastric cancers". International Journal of Cancer. 100 (1): 57–62. doi:10.1002/ijc.10464. PMID 12115587. S2CID 13737339.
• Yang T, Espenshade PJ, Wright ME, Yabe D, Gong Y, Aebersold R, Goldstein JL, Brown MS (Aug 2002). "Crucial step in cholesterol homeostasis: sterols promote binding of SCAP to INSIG-1, a membrane protein that facilitates retention of SREBPs in ER". Cell. 110 (4): 489–500. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00872-3. PMID 12202038. S2CID 15052132.
• Yabe D, Brown MS, Goldstein JL (Oct 2002). "Insig-2, a second endoplasmic reticulum protein that binds SCAP and blocks export of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (20): 12753–8. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9912753Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.162488899. PMC 130532. PMID 12242332.
• Janowski BA (Oct 2002). "The hypocholesterolemic agent LY295427 up-regulates INSIG-1, identifying the INSIG-1 protein as a mediator of cholesterol homeostasis through SREBP". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (20): 12675–80. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9912675J. doi:10.1073/pnas.202471599. PMC 130519. PMID 12242342.
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• Yabe D, Xia ZP, Adams CM, Rawson RB (Dec 2002). "Three mutations in sterol-sensing domain of SCAP block interaction with insig and render SREBP cleavage insensitive to sterols". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (26): 16672–7. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916672Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.262669399. PMC 139202. PMID 12482938.
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• Dobrosotskaya IY, Goldstein JL, Brown MS, Rawson RB (Sep 2003). "Reconstitution of sterol-regulated endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi transport of SREBP-2 in insect cells by co-expression of mammalian SCAP and Insigs". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (37): 35837–43. doi:10.1074/jbc.M306476200. PMID 12842885.
• Li J, Takaishi K, Cook W, McCorkle SK, Unger RH (Aug 2003). "Insig-1 "brakes" lipogenesis in adipocytes and inhibits differentiation of preadipocytes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100 (16): 9476–81. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.9476L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1133426100. PMC 170943. PMID 12869692.
• Adams CM, Goldstein JL, Brown MS (Sep 2003). "Cholesterol-induced conformational change in SCAP enhanced by Insig proteins and mimicked by cationic amphiphiles". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100 (19): 10647–52. Bibcode:2003PNAS..10010647A. doi:10.1073/pnas.1534833100. PMC 196858. PMID 12963821.
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• Engelking LJ, Kuriyama H, Hammer RE, Horton JD, Brown MS, Goldstein JL, Liang G (Apr 2004). "Overexpression of Insig-1 in the livers of transgenic mice inhibits SREBP processing and reduces insulin-stimulated lipogenesis". The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 113 (8): 1168–75. doi:10.1172/JCI20978. PMC 385408. PMID 15085196.
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• Sun LP, Li L, Goldstein JL, Brown MS (Jul 2005). "Insig required for sterol-mediated inhibition of Scap/SREBP binding to COPII proteins in vitro". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280 (28): 26483–90. doi:10.1074/jbc.M504041200. PMID 15899885.

External links

• Uniprot description of INSIG1
• Bioinformatic Harvester entry of INSIG1