“…Processing by MMPs and other metalloproteinases has been described previously for a limited number of other GPCRs, e.g. for β 1 -adrenergic receptor ( 33 ), endothelin B receptor ( 34 , 35 ), thyrotropin receptor ( 36 , 37 ), protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1) ( 38 , 39 ), GPR124 ( 40 ) and more recently for GPR37 ( 41 , 42 ). Apart from PAR-1 and the adhesion family receptor GPR124, where protease cleavage unmasks the endogenous ligand resulting in receptor activation, a functional consequence of protease cleavage has not been explicitly reported.…”