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Activating mutations of TSH receptor.
Annales d'endocrinologie - 1 Feb 2003
Rodien P, Ho S-C, Vlaeminck V, Vassart G, Costagliola S
Abstract excerpt
Mechanisms of activation of G protein-coupled receptor by the agonist, are supposed to rely on release from structural constraints, then allowing the "relaxed" receptor to activate the G protein. By analogy with experimental works on alpha1b adrenergic receptor, showing that mutations could result in constitutive activation of the receptor, it was hypothezised, that similar but spontaneous somatic mutations of...
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