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Melanin-concentrating hormone receptors in GtoPdb v.2023.1



Valérie Audinot1, Jean A. Boutin2, Bernard Lakaye3, Jean-Louis Nahon4 and Yumito Saito5
  1. Institut de recherches Servier, France
  2. Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier, France
  3. University of Liège, Belgium
  4. CNRS Sophia Antipolis, France
  5. Hiroshima University, Japan


Abstract

Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) receptors (provisional nomenclature as recommended by NC-IUPHAR [32]) are activated by an endogenous nonadecameric cyclic peptide identical in humans and rats (DFDMLRCMLGRVYRPCWQV; mammalian MCH) generated from a precursor (PMCH, P20382), which also produces neuropeptide EI and neuropeptide GE.

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