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Trends Endocrinol Metab. 1989 Sep-Oct;1(1):39-44. doi: 10.1016/1043-2760(89)90029-5.

Parathyroid hormone-like peptide: molecular characterization and biological properties.

Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM

D Goltzman, G N Hendy, D Banville

Affiliations

  1. Departments of Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

PMID: 18411086 DOI: 10.1016/1043-2760(89)90029-5

Abstract

Parathyroid hormone-like peptide (PLP) is a newly discovered novel peptide that interacts with renal and osseous parathyroid hormone (PTH) receptors through its amino-terminal sequence, which is homologous with PTH. Human PLP is the product of a complex single-copy gene, existing in several isoforms which result from alternative exon usage. The peptide was implicated as a causal agent in the hypercalcemia associated with a variety of malignancies, but it may also modulate calcium homeostasis in some normal physiological states and mediate cellular growth or differentiation.

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