Hormone

In the field of modern endocrinology, a hormone is any substance, generated either externally or internally, that operates via a receptor at the cellular level, which conveys to to the cell a message to stop, start, or modulate a cellular process.

Guide to Proteopedia Pages Concerning Hormones and their ReceptorsGuide to Proteopedia Pages Concerning Hormones and their Receptors

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Articles in Proteopedia concerning Hormone include:

• Hormones and their receptors
• Steroid Hormones and their receptors
• Signal transduction
• Sex steroids
• Steroids
• Human Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Complexed with its Receptor
• Estrogen receptor
• Estrogen-related receptor
• Androgen Receptor
• Leucine-rich repeat proteins
• Human growth hormone
• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor
• Receiver domain of sensor histidine kinase CKI1
• Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptor
• Neurotensin
• Neurotensin receptor
• Glucagon
• Glucagon receptor
• Hormone sensitive lipase
• Corticosteroid-binding globulin
• Erythropoietin
• Erythropoietin receptor
• Thyroid hormone receptor

To view automatically seeded indices concerning Hormone, see:

• Hormone
• Hormone Receptor
• Steroid receptor
• Steroid hormone receptor

Additional 3D Structures of Hormones and Hormone Receptors and Related MoleculesAdditional 3D Structures of Hormones and Hormone Receptors and Related Molecules

AdrenalineAdrenaline

Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptor
The human β2 adrenergic receptor bound to a hormone analog and G-protein (3sn6) is featured in an image on the right, and additional structures are on the Adrenergic receptor page.

spinqualitylabelsall models Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image An activated G protein-coupled receptor (human β-2 adrenergic receptor in blue ) in a complex with a heterotrimeric G protein (3 subunits:reddish to orange-brown) and hormone (gold) (3sn6), resolution 3.2Å. The boundaries of the membrane in which the GPCR sits are represented in light green.

AngiotensinogenAngiotensinogen

Serpin

Chorionic GonadotropinChorionic Gonadotropin

1hrp, 1hcn - hCG – human
1hd4 - α-subunit of hCG
1e9j, 1dz7 - α-subunit of hCG - NMR
1qfw - hCG + antibody

Estrogen receptorEstrogen receptor

Estrogen receptor

Estrogen-related ReceptorEstrogen-related Receptor

Estrogen-related receptor

Androgen ReceptorAndrogen Receptor

Nuclear Androgen Receptor

Follicle-Stimulating HormoneFollicle-Stimulating Hormone

Follicle-stimulating hormone

PACAP/glucagon family of peptide hormonesPACAP/glucagon family of peptide hormones

3n94 - PAC1R, receptor of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide, is a case of a crystal structure disagreeing with the NMR structure 2jod and vice versa
2jod - Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (residues 6'-38') complexed to the extracellular

GlucocorticoidGlucocorticoid

Glucocorticoid receptor

Glucose-dependent Insulinotropic PolypeptideGlucose-dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide

Glucose-dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor

Growth HormoneGrowth Hormone

Human growth hormone is featured here.

InsulinInsulin

Insulin

ProgesteroneProgesterone

1a28 - hProgR steroid-binding domain + progesterone

See AlsoSee Also

• Cancer
• Membrane proteins
• G protein-coupled receptors
• Nobel Prizes for 3D Molecular Structure
• Highest impact structures of all time
• Hormones and their receptors

External ResourcesExternal Resources

• Sequence-Structure-Function-Analysis of Glycoprotein Hormone Receptors
• GRIS: Glycoprotein-hormone Receptors Information System
• The GPCR-SSFE Database: A Homology Model Resource for G-Protein Coupled Receptors
• The feature on Growth Hormone by Shuchismita Dutta and David S. Goodsell for the April 2004 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month.
• NeuroPedia, a neuropeptide database and spectral library