The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Insulin-Like Growth Factor I alpha across different species:

insulin-like growth factor 1 (somatomedin C) (IGF1)

Other aliases include:

IGFI, IGF1A

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Insulin-Like Growth Factor I alpha:

insulin-like growth factor 1 – OTTHUMP00000195084

Insulin-Like Growth Factor I alpha fulfills a number of functions:

growth factor activity – hormone activity – insulin receptor binding – insulin-like growth factor receptor binding – protein binding

Insulin-Like Growth Factor I alpha is relevant to the following processes:

DNA replication – Ras protein signal transduction – anti-apoptosis – branching morphogenesis of a tube – cell motion – chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan biosynthetic process – glial cell differentiation – glycolate metabolic process – mammary gland development – muscle hypertrophy – muscle organ development – myoblast differentiation – myoblast proliferation – myotube cell development – negative regulation of smooth muscle cell apoptosis – nervous system development – organ morphogenesis – osteoblast differentiation – phosphoinositide-mediated signaling – positive regulation of DNA replication – positive regulation of Ras protein signal transduction – positive regulation of cell proliferation – positive regulation of epithelial cell proliferation – positive regulation of fibroblast proliferation – positive regulation of gene-specific transcription – positive regulation of glycolysis – positive regulation of granule cell precursor proliferation – positive regulation of insulin-like growth factor receptor signaling pathway – positive regulation of mitosis – positive regulation of peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation – positive regulation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase cascade – positive regulation of smooth muscle cell migration – positive regulation of smooth muscle cell proliferation – positive regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter – positive regulation of tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat5 protein – proteoglycan biosynthetic process – regulation of multicellular organism growth – regulation of protein metabolic process – regulation of steroid hormone receptor signaling pathway – satellite cell maintenance involved in skeletal muscle regeneration – signal transduction – skeletal system development – water homeostasis

Locations for Insulin-Like Growth Factor I alpha:

extracellular region – insulin-like growth factor binding protein complex – platelet alpha granule lumen

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology