Novel bioactive parathyroid hormone and related peptides in teleost fish
We report the identification, gene expression and biological activity of two parathyroid hormones (PTH; PTHA and PTHB), two PTH-related peptides (PTHrP; PTHrPA and PTHrPB) and a PTH-like ligand (PTH-L) with hybrid characteristics in puffer fishes (Takifugu rubripes and Tetraodon fluviatilis). Experi...
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Language: | eng |
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2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3850 |
Country: | Portugal |
Oai: | oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/3850 |
Summary: | We report the identification, gene expression and biological activity of two parathyroid hormones (PTH; PTHA and PTHB), two PTH-related peptides (PTHrP; PTHrPA and PTHrPB) and a PTH-like ligand (PTH-L) with hybrid characteristics in puffer fishes (Takifugu rubripes and Tetraodon fluviatilis). Experimental data are consistent with PTH-L and PTHrPA having calciotropic activities equivalent, respectively, to tetrapod PTH and PTHrP. We hypothesise on the basis of phylogenetic and functional analysis that PTH-L could be a fish relic of an ancestral PTH/PTHrP gene. |
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