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Growth Hormone Binding Protein (GHBP) consists of 238 amino acids and includes four sides for glycosylation and three disulfid bounds. In humans GHBP is formed by receptor shedding of the growth hormone receptor by a metalloprotease (ADAM17). Regulation of biological availability of GH is possibly the physiologic role of of GHBP. Thus, the half-life of GH is prolonged up to 100 minutes by binding ...