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GPHB5
Introduction
Glycoprotein hormone beta-5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GPHB5 gene.[1]
GPHB5 is a cystine knot-forming polypeptide and a subunit of the dimeric glycoprotein hormone family (Hsu et al., 2002).[supplied by OMIM][1]
Further reading
Further reading
- Okada SL, Ellsworth JL, Durnam DM, et al. (2006). “A glycoprotein hormone expressed in corticotrophs exhibits unique binding properties on thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor”. Mol. Endocrinol. 20 (2): 414–25. doi:10.1210/me.2005-0270. PMID 16210345.
- 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.
- Heilig R, Eckenberg R, Petit JL, et al. (2003). “The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 14”. Nature. 421 (6923): 601–7. doi:10.1038/nature01348. PMID 12508121.
- 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.