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Sheep Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 ELISA kit
Catalog #: E14I0074
Sample Type: Biological samples
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Other Names

BP53; IBP3; Growth Hormone-Dependent Binding Protein; Acid Stable Subunit Of The 140 K IGF Complex

Research Area

Cell Biology, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Metabolism, Signal Transduction

Background

Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3, also known as IGFBP-3, is a protein that is encoded by the IGFBP3 gene. IGFBP-3 is one of six IGF binding proteins (IGFBP-1 to IGFBP-6) that have highly conserved structures and bind the insulin-like growth factors IGF-1 and IGF-2 with high affinity. IGFBP-7, sometimes inappropriately included in this family, shares neither the conserved structural features nor the high IGF affinity. It is the main IGF transport protein in the bloodstream, where it carries the growth factors predominantly in stable complexes that contain the binding protein, either IGF-1 or IGF-2, and a third protein called the acid-labile subunit or ALS. For IGFs to reach the tissues from the bloodstream, the circulating complexes are believed to partly dissociate, possibly enhanced by limited proteolysis of IGFBP-3. The IGF-1/IGFBP-3 ratio has sometimes been used as an index of IGF bioavailability in the human circulation, but this ignores IGF-1 binding to other IGFBPs (so the ratio is affected by the concentrations of all six IGFBPs), and the fact that IGF-2, which is three times more abundant than IGF-1 in the bloodstream of adults, occupies the majority of binding sites on circulating IGFBP-3.