1. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2. New York State Department of Health, USA
3. National Institutes of Health, USA
4. The University of Edinburgh, UK
5. University of Iowa, USA
6. Erasmus University Medical Cente, The Netherlands

Abstract

Glycoprotein hormone receptors (provisional nomenclature [47]) are activated by a non-covalent heterodimeric glycoprotein made up of a common α chain (glycoprotein hormone common alpha subunit CGA, P01215), with a unique β chain that confers the biological specificity to FSH, LH, hCG or TSH. There is binding cross-reactivity across the endogenous agonists for each of the glycoprotein hormone receptors. The deglycosylated hormones appear to exhibit reduced efficacy at these receptors [122, 31].

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