INS-IGF2
Insulin, isoform 2
Also known as: INSR2_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- F8WCM5
- Gene
- INS-IGF2
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000129965
- Chromosome
- 11
- Canonical length
- 200 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted secreted proteins
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm
- Secretome location
- Secreted to digestive system
OverviewNCBI Gene
This locus includes two alternatively spliced read-through transcript variants which align to the INS gene in the 5' region and to the IGF2 gene in the 3' region. One transcript is predicted to encode a protein which shares the N-terminus with the INS protein but has a distinct and longer C-terminus, whereas the other transcript is a candidate for nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). The transcripts are imprinted and are paternally expressed in the limb and eye. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
200 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>F8WCM5|INS-IGF2
1 MALWMRLLPL LALLALWGPD PAAAFVNQHL CGSHLVEALY LVCGERGFFY TPKTRREAED
61 LQASALSLSS STSTWPEGLD ATARAPPALV VTANIGQAGG SSSRQFRQRA LGTSDSPVLF
121 IHCPGAAGTA QGLEYRGRRV TTELVWEEVD SSPQPQGSES LPAQPPAQPA PQPEPQQARE
181 PSPEVSCCGL WPRRPQRSQNLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against INS-IGF2 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.
- Antibody reachability
- Secreted
- Secreted
- Yes
- Transmembrane segments
- 0
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.68
- Highest tissue expression
- 8.3 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- pancreas: 8.3 nTPM
- placenta: 2.1 nTPM
- liver: 1 nTPM
- adrenal gland: 0.3 nTPM
- endometrium: 0.1 nTPM
- fallopian tube: 0.1 nTPM
Single-cell type
- pancreatic islet cells: 38 nCPM
- pancreatic acinar cells: 1.2 nCPM
- pancreatic duct cells: 0.4 nCPM
- monocytes: 0.2 nCPM
- fibroblasts: 0.1 nCPM
- macrophages: 0.1 nCPM
Immune cell
- basophil: 0 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
- eosinophil: 0 nTPM
- gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
- MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM
Brain region
- thalamus: 0.7 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 0.3 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 0.2 nTPM
- pons: 0.2 nTPM
- amygdala: 0.1 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 0.1 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about INS-IGF2.
Disease | GeneticClinVar
1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 28 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
Disease | ImmuneIEDB
Conditions an epitope on INS-IGF2 was assayed in.
- type 1 diabetes mellitus T cell
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for INS-IGF2 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.
Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed
2 publications
- Autoimmunity against INS-IGF2 protein expressed in human pancreatic islets.
2013 · J Biol Chem · RCR 0.8 · 28 citations - Doubly Reactive INS-IGF2 Autoantibodies in Children with Newly Diagnosed Autoimmune (type 1) Diabetes.
2015 · Scand J Immunol · RCR 0.3 · 8 citations
Reference: T cellIEDB
4 publications
- Human islet T cells are highly reactive to preproinsulin in type 1 diabetes.
2021 · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · RCR 4.4 · 74 citations - The antigen presentation landscape of cytokine-stressed human pancreatic islets.
2025 · Cell Rep · RCR 2.5 · 8 citations - Recognition of a subregion of human proinsulin by class I-restricted T cells in type 1 diabetic patients.
2005 · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · RCR 1.8 · 100 citations - Preproinsulin specific CD8+ T cells in subjects with latent autoimmune diabetes show lower frequency and different pathophysiological characteristics than those with type 1 diabetes.
2015 · Clin Immunol · RCR 0.7 · 21 citations
Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. IEDB — curated epitope assays from the Immune Epitope Database (Vita et al., Nucleic Acids Research 2019). Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.
Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap
Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.
- gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
- 1.04
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.06
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.01
OntologyGO
Molecular functions
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads INS-IGF2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against INS-IGF2 could matter depends on whether native INS-IGF2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
INS-IGF2 is annotated as secreted, so native INS-IGF2 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.
Annotation status
The present source text does not explicitly label INS-IGF2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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