General Information

  • ID:  hor001883
  • Uniprot ID:  P48144
  • Protein name:  Growth hormone-releasing factor
  • Gene name:  NA
  • Organism:  Clarias macrocephalus (Bighead catfish)
  • Family:  Glucagon family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  Brain, testis, ovary and stomach. Not pancreas, pituitary, muscle and liver.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Clarias (genus), Clariidae (family), Siluroidei (suborder), Siluriformes (order), Characiphysae (superorder), Otophysi, Ostariophysi (subcohort), Otomorpha (cohort), Clupeocephala, Osteoglossocephalai, Teleostei (infraclass), Neopterygii (subclass), Actinopteri (class), Actinopterygii (superclass), Euteleostomi, Teleostomi, Gnathostomata, Vertebrata, Craniata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Deuterostomia, Bilateria, Eumetazoa, Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta, Eukaryota (superkingdom), cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  GO:0005179 hormone activity; GO:0005184 neuropeptide hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007165 signal transduction
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  HADGLLDRALRDILVQLSARKYLHSLTAVRVGEEEEDEEDSEPLS
  • Length:  45(83-127)
  • Propeptide:  MAKSSRATLALLIYGILMRYSQCTPIGMGFPNMRLDNDVFGDEGNSLSELSYEPDTMSARSRPALPEDAYTLYYPPERRAETHADGLLDRALRDILVQLSARKYLHSLTAVRVGEEEEDEEDSEPLSKRHSDGIFTDSYSRYRKQMAVKKYLAAVLGRRYRQRFRNKGRRLVVPSVWTGIRDTVIITPEKRGKRY
  • Signal peptide:  MAKSSRATLALLIYGILMRY
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Release GH from the pituitary
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NA
  • Target:  NA
  • Target Unid:   NA
  • IC50:  NA
  • EC50:  NA
  • ED50:  NA
  • Kd:  NA
  • Half life:  NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  NA
  • Structure ID:  AF-P48144-F1(AlphaFold_DB_ID)

  • 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)
    •    hor001883_AF2.pdbhor001883_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 586159 Formula: C217H353N63O77
Absent amino acids: CFMNW Common amino acids: L
pI: 4.19 Basic residues: 7
Polar residues: 8 Hydrophobic residues: 16
Hydrophobicity: -59.33 Boman Index: -12215
Half-Life / Aliphatic Index: 3.5 hour Aliphatic Index: 106.22
Instability Index: 6159.11 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 1490
Absorbance 280nm: 33.86

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  7758831
  • Title:  Sequence and Expression of cDNA for Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) and Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (GHRH)-like Peptide in Catfish