Yue Wang, Shimeng Guo, Youwen Zhuang, Ying Yun, Peiyu Xu, Xinheng He, Jia Guo, Wanchao Yin, H Eric Xu, Xin Xie, Yi Jiang
Ghrelin, also called "the hunger hormone", is a gastric peptide hormone that regulates food intake, body weight, as well as taste sensation, reward, cognition, learning and memory. One unique feature of ghrelin is its acylation, primarily with an octanoic acid, which is essential for its binding and activation of the ghrelin receptor, a G protein-coupled receptor. The multifaceted roles of ghrelin make ghrelin receptor a highly attractive drug target for growth retardation, obesity, and metabolic disorders...
August 20, 2021: Nature Communications