General Information

  • ID:  hor001673
  • Uniprot ID:  P85455
  • Protein name:  FMRFamide-8
  • Gene name:  NA
  • Organism:  Lucilia cuprina (Green bottle fly) (Australian sheep blowfly)
  • Family:  FARP (FMRFamide related peptide) family
  • Source:  animal
  • Expression:  Detected in the thoracic perisympathetic organs in larvae, and the dorsal ganglionic sheath in adults (at protein level).
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Lucilia (genus), Luciliinae (subfamily), Calliphoridae (family), Oestroidea (superfamily), Calyptratae, Schizophora, Cyclorrhapha, Eremoneura, Muscomorpha (infraorder), Brachycera (suborder), Diptera (order), Endopterygota (cohort), Neoptera (infraclass), Pterygota (subclass), Dicondylia, Insecta (class), Hexapoda (subphylum), Pancrustacea, Mandibulata, Arthropoda (phylum), Panarthropoda, Ecdysozoa, Protostomia, Bilateria, Eumetazoa, Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta, Eukaryota (superkingdom), cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  NA
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  AAGQDFMRF
  • Length:  9
  • Propeptide:  AAGQDFMRF
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  T9 Phenylalanine amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  NA
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NO
  • Target:  NA
  • Target Unid:  NA
  • IC50: NA
  • EC50: NA
  • ED50: NA
  • kd: NA
  • Half life: NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  NA
  • Structure ID:  NA

  • Structure: (PDB_ID-from https://www.rcsb.org/; AlphaFold_DB_ID-from https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/; hordbxxxxxx_AF2.pdb was predicted structure by AlphaFold2; hordbxxxxxx_ESM.pdb was predicted structure by ESMFold)
    •    hor001673_AF2.pdbhor001673_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 118506 Formula: C46H67N13O13S
Absent amino acids: CEHIKLNPSTVWY Common amino acids: AF
pI: 6.34 Basic residues: 1
Polar residues: 1 Hydrophobic residues: 4
Hydrophobicity: -8.89 Boman Index: -1631
Half-Life: 4.4 hour Half-Life Yeast: >20 hour
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 22.22
Instability Index: 1353.33 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 0
Absorbance 280nm: 0

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  18789334
  • Title:  Extended FMRFamides in dipteran insects: conservative expression in the neuroendocrine system is accompanied by rapid sequence evolution.