insulin receptor complex

id: GO:0005899
name: insulin receptor complex
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A disulfide-bonded, heterotetrameric receptor complex. The alpha chains are entirely extracellular, while each beta chain has one transmembrane domain. The ligand binds to the alpha subunit extracellular domain and the kinase is associated with the beta subunit intracellular domain.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043235receptor complex
GO:0044459plasma membrane part