General Information

  • ID:  hor002411
  • Uniprot ID:  Q9GKY5
  • Protein name:  Ghrelin
  • Gene name:  GHRL
  • Organism:  Sus scrofa (Pig)
  • Family:  Motilin family
  • Source:  animal
  • Expression:  NA
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Sus (genus), Suidae (family), Suina (suborder), Artiodactyla (order), Laurasiatheria (superorder), Boreoeutheria, Eutheria, Theria, Mammalia (class), Amniota, Tetrapoda, Dipnotetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii (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:0016608 growth hormone-releasing hormone activity; GO:0030296 protein tyrosine kinase activator activity; GO:0031768 ghrelin receptor binding
  • GO BP:  GO:0001696 gastric acid secretion; GO:0001937 negative regulation of endothelial cell proliferation; GO:0007165 signal transduction; GO:0007204 positive regulation of cytosolic calcium ion concentration; GO:0008154 actin polymerization or depolymerization; GO:0009725 response to hormone; GO:0016358 dendrite development; GO:0032024 positive regulation of insulin secretion; GO:0032095 regulation of response to food; GO:0032097 positive regulation of response to food; GO:0032691 negative regulation of interleukin-1 beta production
  • GO CC:  NA

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  GSSFLSPEHQKVQQRKESKKPAAKLKPR
  • Length:  28
  • Propeptide:  MPSTGTICSLLLLSVLLMADLAMAGSSFLSPEHQKVQQRKESKKPAAKLKPRALEGWLGPEDSGEVEGTEDKLEIRFNAPCDVGIKLSGAQSDQHGQPLGKFLQDILWEEVTEAPADK
  • Signal peptide:  MPSTGTICSLLLLSVLLMADLAMA
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Induces the release of growth hormone from the pituitary. Has an appetite-stimulating effect, induces adiposity and stimulates gastric acid secretion. Involved in growth regulation
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NA
  • Target:  GHSR
  • Target Unid:  Q95254
  • IC50: NA
  • EC50: NA
  • ED50: NA
  • kd: NA
  • Half life: NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  NA
  • Structure ID:  AF-Q9GKY5-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)
  •    hor002411_AF2.pdbhor002411_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 367245 Formula: C140H237N45O40
Absent amino acids: CDIMNTWY Common amino acids: K
pI: 11.42 Basic residues: 9
Polar residues: 5 Hydrophobic residues: 6
Hydrophobicity: -154.64 Boman Index: -9022
Half-Life: 30 hour Half-Life Yeast: >20 hour
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 45.36
Instability Index: 3918.93 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 0
Absorbance 280nm: 0

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  NA
  • Title:  NA