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ArticleScientific reports2020

First Reports of Effects of Insulin, Human-like Insulin Receptors and Adapter Proteins in Acanthamoeba castellanii.

Abdul Mannan Baig, Areeba Khaleeq

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Abdul Mannan BaigDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. abdul.mannan@aku.edu.
Areeba KhaleeqDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The insulin receptor (IR) and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1-R) play key roles in growth, regulation of nutrient metabolism and carbohydrate homeostasis. Insulin-like molecules in prokaryotes and other early life have been reported. However, an account of metabolic effects of insulin, transcriptomic evidence of expression of glucose transporting channels (GLUT) and homology modelling of IR and IGF1-R like proteins in unicellular life-forms have yet to be established. Acanthamoeba spp. has existed for about 2 billion years and is one of the earliest mitochondriate unicellular eukaryotic cells on Earth. Despite Acanthamoeba spp. being grown in a medium called peptone-yeast-glucose (PYG) for over 50 years, the mechanism and regulation of glucose uptake by IR or IGF1-R molecules in this microbe has not yet been reported. Several methods were utilized to validate the effects of insulin on trophozoites of A. castellanii, including: growth assays with insulin, estimation of glucose and potassium (K

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Acanthamoeba castellaniiAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAmino Acid SequenceBiological EvolutionCell ProliferationCells, CulturedGene Expression RegulationGlucoseImmunohistochemistryInsulinMetforminModels, MolecularProtein ConformationReceptor, InsulinSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingGlucoseInsulinMetforminReceptor, Insulin

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PMID32678116
PMCPMC7366918

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