Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

GPR101 drives growth hormone hypersecretion and gigantism in mice via constitutive activation of Gs and Gq/11

  • Dayana Abboud,
  • Adrian F. Daly,
  • Nadine Dupuis,
  • Mohamed Ali Bahri,
  • Asuka Inoue,
  • Andy Chevigné,
  • Fabien Ectors,
  • Alain Plenevaux,
  • Bernard Pirotte,
  • Albert Beckers,
  • Julien Hanson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18500-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Growth hormone (GH) is a major modulator of physical growth and metabolism that is under tight regulatory control. Here the authors describe the signaling profile of GPR101, an orphan receptor that enhances GH secretion principally via constitutively activated Gs-PKA and Gq/11-PKC pathways.