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Title: | Genetics of primary macronodular adrenal hyperplasia |
Authors: | FRAGOSO, Maria Candida Barisson Villares; CAVALCANTE, Isadora Pontes; FERREIRA, Amanda Meneses; MARIANI, Beatriz Marinho de Paula; LOTFI, Claudimara Ferini Pacicco |
Citation: | PRESSE MEDICALE, v.47, n.43319, Special Issue, p.E139-E149, 2018 |
Abstract: | Recent advances in molecular genetics investigations of primary macronodular adrenal hyperplasia (PMAH) have been providing new insights for the research on this issue. The cAMP-dependent pathway is physiologically triggered by ACTH and its receptor, MC2-R, in adrenocortical cells. Different mechanisms of this cascade may be altered in some functioning adrenal cortical disorders. Activating somatic mutations of the GNAS gene (known as gsp oncogene) which encodes the stimulatory G protein alpha-subunit (Gs alpha) have been found in a small number of adrenocortical secreting adenomas and rarely in PMAH. Lately, ARMC5 was linked to the cyclic AMP signaling pathway, which could be implicated in all of mechanisms of cortisol-secreting by macronodules adrenal hyperplasia and the molecular defects in: G protein aberrant receptors; MC2R; GNAS; PRKAR1A; PDE11A; PDE8B. Around 50 % of patient's relatives with PMAH and 30 % of apparently sporadic hypercortisolism carried ARMC5 mutations. Therefore, PMAH is genetically determined more frequently than previously believed. This review summarizes the most important molecular mechanisms involved in PMAH. |
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