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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohammed Abdelwahed M.D[2]
Overview
The somatotroph cells of the anterior pituitary gland produce growth hormone (GH). GH best-known effect is increasing body mass. GH causes epiphyseal plate widening and cartilage growth. GH deficiency results in alterations in the physiology of different systems of the body, manifesting as altered lipid metabolism, increased subcutaneous visceral fat, decreased muscle mass. Genetic basis of congenital growth hormone deficiency depends on many genes, for example, POU1F1 gene mutations are the most common known genetic cause of the combined pituitary hormone deficiency. Gene deletions, frameshift mutations, and nonsense mutations of GH1 gene have been described as causes of familial GHD.
Pathophysiology
- The somatotroph cells of the anterior pituitary gland produce growth hormone.[1]
- They are regulated by two hypothalamic hormones; GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) stimulates and somatostatin inhibits them.
- GH effect is increasing body mass:
- GH increases total body protein content and is associated with an increase in amino acid incorporation into cartilage and bone.[2]
- GH stimulates lipolysis decreasing total body fat content.
- GH also increases bone mass by stimulating skeletal insulin-like growth factor-I and causing hypertrophy of osteoblasts, bone remodeling, and mineralization. GH decreases expression of adipocyte maturation regulators (C/EBPα, PPARγ) and prominent genes related to lipid synthesis such as FAS and FABP. GH treatment increased the mRNA expression of adiponectin and UCP1 in mature adipocytes.[3]
- GH causes epiphyseal plate widening and cartilage growth.
- GH deficiency results in alterations in the physiology of different systems of the body, manifesting as altered lipid metabolism, increased subcutaneous visceral fat, decreased muscle mass, decreased bone density, low exercise performance, and reduced quality of life.
Regulation of growth hormone secretion
- The secretion of growth hormone is controlled by a complex regulatory system. Primarily, it is controlled by two hormones; GH-releasing hormone and somatostatin.
- The adenylate cyclase-cyclic AMP-protein kinase A plays a major role in the control of GH secretion by GH-releasing hormone.
- GH gene expression is also of importance in determining the GH responses.
- GH secretion is pulsatile; between pulses, serum GH concentration may be undetectable. It is thought that the pulses of GH release are mediated by the reduction in inhibition by somatostatin with an increase of GHRH. [11,21].
- The glucocorticoids play a principal role in the functional maturation of GH cells in the fetal pituitary glands, inducing GH and GHRH-receptor gene expression, and establish the GH secretory system.
- During puberty, there is a temporary increase in GH secretion with a subsequent return to the normal values in early adulthood.(2)
Molecular effects of growth hormone on cells
- GH stimulated cell proliferation in both trabecular and stromal osteoblasts.
- Human trabecular osteoblasts produce mainly IGF-II, IGFBP-3 and fewer quantities of IGF-I in culture.
- IGFs and their binding proteins may exert important regulatory effects on the biological effects of GH on human osteoblasts.
- Growth hormone (GH) acts by binding to a specific receptor homodimer, located mostly in the liver.
- The receptor consists of an extracellular ligand-binding domain, a single membrane-spanning domain, and a cytoplasmic signaling component.
- Its predominant action is to stimulate hepatic synthesis and secretion of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a potent growth and differentiation factor [1].
- IGF-1 is a critical protein induced by GH and is likely responsible for most of the growth-promoting activities of GH [33].
- IGF-1 also directly inhibits GH secretion [33] and GH receptor function [34] by a negative feedback regulation loop.
- A single GH molecule complexes with two GH receptor molecules, followed by rapid internal rotation, and activation of JAK2 tyrosine kinase, leading to phosphorylation of several cytoplasmic signaling molecules determining cell proliferation and differentiated function.
- Activation of Jak2 leads to mitogenic proliferation, phosphorylation of intracellular proteins, MAP kinase activation, activation of Stats 1, 3, and 5, and induction of target gene expression.
- The STAT proteins comprise important signaling components for GH action.
- These cytoplasmic proteins are phosphorylated by JAK2 and directly translocated to the cell nucleus, where they elicit GH-specific target gene effects by binding to nuclear DNA. [1].
- STAT proteins 1 and 5 may also interact more directly with the GH receptor molecule [32]. STAT 5 plays important roles in the regulation of expression and in the sexually dimorphic expression of some liver genes.
- a defect in GH-mediated JAK-STAT signal transduction could be a cause of the GH resistance that develops in the KD state and in this way contribute to the striking growth retardation that develops in this condition. In rats with chronic renal failure, a condition of acquired growth failure associated with GH resistance, we recently demonstrated that hepatic GH-dependent JAK-STAT signaling is impaired (22).
Genetic basis of growth hormone deficiency
POU1F1 gene mutations
- It is the most common known genetic cause of the combined pituitary hormone deficiency.[4]
- It is responsible for pituitary-specific transcription of genes for GH, prolactin, thyrotropin, and the growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor.[5]
- PROP1 mutations result in failure to activate POU1F1/Pit1 gene expression and probably cause pituitary hypoplasia.[6]
GH1 gene mutations
- It is GH1 is the gene encoding GH, located on chromosome 17.
- Gene deletions, frameshift mutations, and nonsense mutations of GH1 have been described as causes of familial GHD.
Syndrome of bioinactive GH
- Bioinactive GH has the main symptoms and signs of isolated GHD with normal basal GH levels and low insulin-like growth factor I concentrations.[7]
GH receptor signal transduction
- It is essential for normal signaling of the GH receptor. Mutations in the gene encoding signal transducer decrease the response of receptors to GH.[8]
IGF-I gene mutations
- Mutations in the gene encoding IGF-I cause a unique syndrome of GHD.[9]
- Patients with IGF-I gene mutations have prenatal growth failure, microcephaly, significant neurocognitive deficits, and sensorineural hearing loss.
Defective stabilization of circulating IGF-I
- Acid-labile subunit is important for the stabilization of the IGF-I.
- Mutations in the gene coding for it causes less stable and subsequently less effect.[10]
IGF-I receptor mutations
- Mutations in the gene encoding the receptor for the IGF-I result in partial loss of function of the IGF-I receptor.[11]
References
- ↑ Cuttler L (1996). "The regulation of growth hormone secretion". Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 25 (3): 541–71. PMID 8879986.
- ↑ MURPHY WR, DAUGHADAY WH, HARTNETT C (1956). "The effect of hypophysectomy and growth hormone on the incorporation of labeled sulfate into tibial epiphyseal and nasal cartilage of the rat". J Lab Clin Med. 47 (5): 715–22. PMID 13319878.
- ↑ Veldhuis JD, Roemmich JN, Richmond EJ, Rogol AD, Lovejoy JC, Sheffield-Moore M; et al. (2005). "Endocrine control of body composition in infancy, childhood, and puberty". Endocr Rev. 26 (1): 114–46. doi:10.1210/er.2003-0038. PMID 15689575.
- ↑ Ziemnicka K, Budny B, Drobnik K, Baszko-Błaszyk D, Stajgis M, Katulska K; et al. (2016). "Two coexisting heterozygous frameshift mutations in PROP1 are responsible for a different phenotype of combined pituitary hormone deficiency". J Appl Genet. 57 (3): 373–81. doi:10.1007/s13353-015-0328-z. PMC 4963446. PMID 26608600.
- ↑ Li S, Crenshaw EB, Rawson EJ, Simmons DM, Swanson LW, Rosenfeld MG (1990). "Dwarf locus mutants lacking three pituitary cell types result from mutations in the POU-domain gene pit-1". Nature. 347 (6293): 528–33. doi:10.1038/347528a0. PMID 1977085.
- ↑ Wu W, Cogan JD, Pfäffle RW, Dasen JS, Frisch H, O'Connell SM; et al. (1998). "Mutations in PROP1 cause familial combined pituitary hormone deficiency". Nat Genet. 18 (2): 147–9. doi:10.1038/ng0298-147. PMID 9462743.
- ↑ Besson A, Salemi S, Deladoëy J, Vuissoz JM, Eblé A, Bidlingmaier M; et al. (2005). "Short stature caused by a biologically inactive mutant growth hormone (GH-C53S)". J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 90 (5): 2493–9. doi:10.1210/jc.2004-1838. PMID 15713716.
- ↑ Hwa V, Camacho-Hübner C, Little BM, David A, Metherell LA, El-Khatib N; et al. (2007). "Growth hormone insensitivity and severe short stature in siblings: a novel mutation at the exon 13-intron 13 junction of the STAT5b gene". Horm Res. 68 (5): 218–24. doi:10.1159/000101334. PMID 17389811.
- ↑ Batey L, Moon JE, Yu Y, Wu B, Hirschhorn JN, Shen Y; et al. (2014). "A novel deletion of IGF1 in a patient with idiopathic short stature provides insight Into IGF1 haploinsufficiency". J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 99 (1): E153–9. doi:10.1210/jc.2013-3106. PMC 3879666. PMID 24243634.
- ↑ Domené HM, Hwa V, Argente J, Wit JM, Wit JM, Camacho-Hübner C; et al. (2009). "Human acid-labile subunit deficiency: clinical, endocrine and metabolic consequences". Horm Res. 72 (3): 129–41. doi:10.1159/000232486. PMID 19729943.
- ↑ Kawashima Y, Higaki K, Fukushima T, Hakuno F, Nagaishi J, Hanaki K; et al. (2012). "Novel missense mutation in the IGF-I receptor L2 domain results in intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation". Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 77 (2): 246–54. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2265.2012.04357.x. PMID 22309212.