New Insights into Growth Hormone Receptor Function and Clinical Implications

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Although used as a therapeutic for 50 years, it is only recently that the application of molecular techniques has provided a basis for understanding growth hormone’s (GH) clinical actions. This article reviews progress in our current knowledge of the molecular mechanism of growth hormone (GH) receptor activation based on a number of physicochemical techniques, and documents insights gained into the means used by the activated GH receptor to control the expression of genes regulating growth and metabolism. These findings are related to disorders of short stature, and the therapeutic consequences are summarized.

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Growth hormone insensitivity associated with a STAT5b mutation.

Vivian Hwa, Caroline K Buckway, J. Heinrich … (2003)

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Model for growth hormone receptor activation based on subunit rotation within a receptor dimer.

Richard Brown, Julian Adams, Rebecca Pelekanos … (2005)

Growth hormone is believed to activate the growth hormone receptor (GHR) by dimerizing two identical receptor subunits, leading to activation of JAK2 kinase associated with the cytoplasmic domain. However, we have reported previously that dimerization alone is insufficient to activate full-length GHR. By comparing the crystal structure of the liganded and unliganded human GHR extracellular domain, we show here that there is no substantial change in its conformation on ligand binding. However, the receptor can be activated by rotation without ligand by inserting a defined number of alanine residues within the transmembrane domain. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) and coimmunoprecipitation studies suggest that receptor subunits undergo specific transmembrane interactions independent of hormone binding. We propose an activation mechanism involving a relative rotation of subunits within a dimeric receptor as a result of asymmetric placement of the receptor-binding sites on the ligand.

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Binding in the growth hormone receptor complex.

Adam Wells (1996)

Binding reactions between human growth hormone (hGH) and its receptor provide a detailed account of how a polypeptide hormone activates its receptor and more generally how proteins interact. Through high-resolution structural and functional studies it is seen that hGH uses two different sites (site 1 and site 2) to bind two identical receptor molecules. This sequential dimerization reaction activates the receptor, presumably by bringing the intracellular domains into close proximity so they may activate cytosolic components. As a consequence of this mechanism it is possible to build antagonists to the receptor by introducing mutations in hGH that block binding at site 2 and to build even more potent antagonists by combining these with mutants that enhance binding at site 1. Alanine-scanning mutagenesis of all contact residues at the site 1 interface shows that only a small and complementary set of side chains clustered near the center of the interface affects binding. The most important contacts are hydrophobic, and these are surrounded by polar and charged interactions of lesser importance. Kinetic analysis shows for the most part that the important side chains function to maintain the complex, not to guide the hormone to the receptor. Hormone-induced homodimerization or heterodimerization reactions are turning out to be pervasive mechanisms for signal transduction. Moreover, the molecular recognition principles seen in the hGH-receptor complex are likely to generalize to other protein-protein complexes.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): HRE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Horm Res Paediatr

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1663-2818

Title: Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1663-2818

ISSN (Electronic): 1663-2826

Publication date Subscription-year: 2008

Publication date (Print): January 2008

Publication date (Electronic): 08 January 2008

Volume: 69

Issue: 3

Pages: 138-145

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^aSchool of Dentistry, University of Queensland, Brisbane and ^bInstitute for Molecular Bioscience and School of Biomedical Science, St. Lucia, Australia

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Publisher ID: 112586 Other ID: Horm Res 2008;69:138–145

DOI: 10.1159/000112586

PubMed ID: 18219216

SO-VID: 1f0342cb-9f3f-4e09-9c93-2e07ad01fd96

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Date received : 26 October 2006

Date accepted : 30 July 2007

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Growth hormone insensitivity associated with a STAT5b mutation.

Model for growth hormone receptor activation based on subunit rotation within a receptor dimer.

Binding in the growth hormone receptor complex.

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