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Encyclopedia > Growth hormone binding protein
growth hormone receptor
Identifiers
Symbol(s) GHR
Entrez 2690
OMIM 600946
RefSeq NM_000163
UniProt P10912
Other data
Locus Chr. 5 p13-p12

Growth hormone binding protein is, as its name would indicate, a carrier protein for growth hormone. Hugo is a masculine name. ... The Entrez logo The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. ... The Mendelian Inheritance in Man project is a database that catalogues all the known diseases with a genetic component, and - when possible - links them to the relevant genes in the human genome. ... The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is a branch of the US National Institutes of Health. ... Swiss-Prot is a curated biological database of protein sequences created in 1986 by Amos Bairoch during his PhD and developed by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the European Bioinformatics Institute. ... Short and long arms Chromosome. ... Chromosome 5 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. ... Carrier proteins are proteins that transport a particular substance in the blood or across the cell membrane. ... Growth hormone (GH or somatotropin) is a 191 amino acid, single chain polypeptide hormone which is synthesised, stored and secreted by the stomatotraph cells within the lateral wings of the anterior pituitary gland, which stimulates growth and cell reproduction in humans and other vertebrate animals. ...


It is coded by the same gene as growth hormone receptor. Growth hormone receptor is a protein which acts as a receptor for somatotropin. ...


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