Insulin elicits diverse biological responses in many tissues and cell types by binding to its specific receptor. The insulin receptor (IR) is a tetramer consisting of two extracellular a subunits and two membrane-spanning p subunits. The binding of insulin to the receptor causes conformational changes that lead to autophosphorylation and activation of the tyrosine kinase intrinsic to the S subunits.
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