title: Molecular mechanisms underlying physiological and receptor pleiotropic effects mediated by GLP-1R activation.
abstract: The incidence of type 2 diabetes in developed countries is increasing yearly with a significant negative impact on patient quality of life and an enormous burden on the healthcare system. Current biguanide and thiazolidinedione treatments for type 2 diabetes have a number of clinical limitations, the most serious long-term limitation being the eventual need for insulin replacement therapy (Table 1). Since 2007, drugs targeting the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor have been marketed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. These drugs have enjoyed a great deal of success even though our underlying understanding of the mechanisms for their pleiotropic effects remain poorly characterized even while major pharmaceutical companies actively pursue small molecule alternatives. Coupling of the GLP-1 receptor to more than one signalling pathway (pleiotropic signalling) can result in ligand-dependent signalling bias and for a peptide receptor such as the GLP-1 receptor this can be exaggerated with the use of small molecule agonists. Better consideration of receptor signalling pleiotropy will be necessary for future drug development. This is particularly important given the recent failure of taspoglutide, the report of increased risk of pancreatitis associated with GLP-1 mimetics and the observed clinical differences between liraglutide, exenatide and the newly developed long-acting exenatide long acting release, albiglutide and dulaglutide.
authors.affiliation: Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Vic., Australia.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pabreja
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mohd
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koole
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wootten
authors.forename: S G B
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Furness
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy; D052216:Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000067757:Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor; D006801:Humans; D054795:Incretins / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D018027:Receptors, Glucagon / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: C000593833:GLP1R protein, human; D000067757:Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor; D054795:Incretins; D018027:Receptors, Glucagon; D052216:Glucagon-Like Peptide 1
keywords: G protein-coupled receptor; GLP-1; GLP-1R; GPCR; glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor; type 2 diabetes
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