GPHA2
Glycoprotein hormone alpha-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GPHA2 gene.[3][4]
GPHA2 is a cystine knot-forming polypeptide and a subunit of the dimeric glycoprotein hormone family (Hsu et al., 2002).[supplied by OMIM][4]
References
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. PMID 17363077. doi:10.1016/j.regpep.2007.01.009.
- 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. PMID 16376481. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2005.11.009.
- 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. PMID 15890769. doi:10.1210/en.2005-0317.
- 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. PMC 528928
. PMID 15489334. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504.
- 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. PMC 139241 . PMID 12477932. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899.
- 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. PMID 12089349. doi:10.1210/me.16.7.1538.
- 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. PMC 150994 . PMID 12045258. doi:10.1172/JCI14340.