Melatonin receptor 1C

Melatonin receptor 1C
Identifiers
Symbol	Mtnr1c
Entrez	30661
RefSeq	AY166825
UniProt	Q804I9

Melatonin receptor 1C, also known as MTNR1C, is a protein that is encoded by the Mtnr1c gene. This receptor has been identified in fish, amphibia, and birds, but not in humans.

Further reading

• Brzezinski A; Brzezinski, Amnon (1997). "Melatonin in humans". N. Engl. J. Med. 336 (3): 186–95. doi:10.1056/NEJM199701163360306. PMID 8988899. 
• Reppert SM, Weaver DR, Ebisawa T, et al. (1996). "Cloning of a melatonin-related receptor from human pituitary". FEBS Lett. 386 (2–3): 219–24. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(96)00437-1. PMID 8647286. 
• Niles LP, Wang J, Shen L, et al. (2000). "Melatonin receptor mRNA expression in human granulosa cells". Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 156 (1–2): 107–10. doi:10.1016/S0303-7207(99)00135-5. PMID 10612428. 
• Roy D, Angelini NL, Fujieda H, et al. (2001). "Cyclical regulation of GnRH gene expression in GT1-7 GnRH-secreting neurons by melatonin". Endocrinology. 142 (11): 4711–20. doi:10.1210/en.142.11.4711. PMID 11606436. 
• Ayoub MA, Couturier C, Lucas-Meunier E, et al. (2002). "Monitoring of ligand-independent dimerization and ligand-induced conformational changes of melatonin receptors in living cells by bioluminescence resonance energy transfer". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (24): 21522–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M200729200. PMID 11940583. 
• Yuan L, Collins AR, Dai J, et al. (2003). "MT(1) melatonin receptor overexpression enhances the growth suppressive effect of melatonin in human breast cancer cells". Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 192 (1–2): 147–56. doi:10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00029-1. PMID 12088876. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. 
• Slominski A, Pisarchik A, Zbytek B, et al. (2003). "Functional activity of serotoninergic and melatoninergic systems expressed in the skin". J. Cell. Physiol. 196 (1): 144–53. doi:10.1002/jcp.10287. PMID 12767050. 
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. 
• Suzuki S, Masui Y, Ohnuki M, et al. (2007). "Induction of metallothionein synthesis by cilostazol in mice and in human cultured neuronal cell lines". Biol. Pharm. Bull. 30 (4): 791–4. doi:10.1248/bpb.30.791. PMID 17409522. 

See also

• Melatonin receptor