A few days back, my fellow CNV grantee Theresia Gutmann from the Coskun lab casually told me over dinner about her PhD work. In collaboration with the Rockefeller University NYC, Theresia had visualized the changing conformation of the human insulin receptor upon insulin binding (paper). Having just started at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden with its focus on Diabetes, I could not believe that this had not been done before! To honor her achievement, I made a #sketchnote of the discovery and a GIF explaining insulin in our body (below).
Insulin:
Paper: Gutmann, Kim et al. (2018): Visualization of ligand-induced transmembrane signaling in the full-length human insulin receptor. Journal of Cell Biology, DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201711047
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