Functional New World monkey oxytocin forms elicit an altered signaling profile and promotes parental care in rats.
Parreiras-E-Silva LT, Vargas-Pinilla P, Duarte DA, Longo D, Espinoza Pardo GV, Dulor Finkler A, Paixão-Côrtes VR, Paré P, Rovaris DL, Oliveira EB, Caceres RA, Gonçalves GL, Bouvier M, Salzano FM, Lucion AB, Costa-Neto CM, Bortolini MC.
Parreiras-E-Silva LT, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 22;114(34):9044-9049. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711687114. Epub 2017 Aug 7.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.
PMID: 28784762
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Here, we demonstrate that, compared with the Leu(8)OXT found in most placental mammals, the Cebidae Pro(8)OXT and Saguinus Val(3)Pro(8)OXT taxon-specific variants act as equi-efficacious agonists for the G(q)-dependent pathway but are weaker agonists for the beta-arrestin …
Here, we demonstrate that, compared with the Leu(8)OXT found in most placental mammals, the Cebidae Pro(8)OXT and Saguinus Val(3)Pro(8)OXT t …