GPHA2
Glycoprotein hormone alpha-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GPHA2 gene.[1][2]
GPHA2 is a cystine knot-forming polypeptide and a subunit of the dimeric glycoprotein hormone family (Hsu et al., 2002).[supplied by OMIM][2]
References
References
- ↑ Hsu SY, Nakabayashi K, Nishi S, Kumagai J, Kudo M, Sherwood OD, Hsueh AJ (Jan 2002). “Activation of orphan receptors by the hormone relaxin”. Science. 295 (5555): 671–4. doi:10.1126/science.1065654. PMID 11809971.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: GPHA2 glycoprotein hormone alpha 2”.
Further reading
Further reading
- Suzuki C, Nagasaki H, Okajima Y, et al. (2007). “The LIM domain homeobox gene isl-1 is a positive regulator of glycoprotein alpha 2 (GPA2), a subunit of thyrostimulin”. Regul. Pept. 142 (1–2): 60–7. doi:10.1016/j.regpep.2007.01.009. PMID 17363077.
- Breous E, Wenzel A, Loos U (2006). “Promoter cloning and characterisation of the transcriptional regulation of the human thyrostimulin A2 subunit”. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 245 (1–2): 169–80. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2005.11.009. PMID 16376481.
- Sudo S, Kuwabara Y, Park JI, et al. (2005). “Heterodimeric fly glycoprotein hormone-alpha2 (GPA2) and glycoprotein hormone-beta5 (GPB5) activate fly leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor-1 (DLGR1) and stimulation of human thyrotropin receptors by chimeric fly GPA2 and human GPB5”. Endocrinology. 146 (8): 3596–604. doi:10.1210/en.2005-0317. PMID 15890769.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Hsu SY, Nakabayashi K, Bhalla A (2003). “Evolution of glycoprotein hormone subunit genes in bilateral metazoa: identification of two novel human glycoprotein hormone subunit family genes, GPA2 and GPB5”. Mol. Endocrinol. 16 (7): 1538–51. doi:10.1210/me.16.7.1538. PMID 12089349.
- Nakabayashi K, Matsumi H, Bhalla A, et al. (2002). “Thyrostimulin, a heterodimer of two new human glycoprotein hormone subunits, activates the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor”. J. Clin. Invest. 109 (11): 1445–52. doi:10.1172/JCI14340. PMC 150994. PMID 12045258.
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