In bacteria and mitochondria, the formyl residue on the initiator methionine is removed from the protein by a specific deformylase enzyme to generate a normal NH2 terminus.

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Fat and muscle cells express large amounts of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter GLUT4

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In resting cells, virtually all of the GLUT4 is localized to small vesicles in the cytosol While some GLUT4 is in endosomes, most is in a unique small organelle termed the GLUT4 storage vesicle (GSV)

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In GSV, much of the GLUT4 is tethered to the Golgi matrix, a network of coiled-coil proteins surrounding the Golgi complex,  by a TUG protein

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Binding of insulin to the insulin receptor leads to activation of a protease that cleaves the TUG protein, releasing GLUT4-containing vesicles, which move along microtubules

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Insulin also activates PKB which phosphorylates the Rab GAP protein AS160

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Rab proteins in their active GTP-bound states, allow the GLUT4 storage vesicles to move along microtubules to the cell surface