General Information

  • ID:  hor004346
  • Uniprot ID:  Q868G6
  • Protein name:  Brain peptide ASFDDEYY
  • Gene name:  Atk
  • Organism:  Apis mellifera (Honeybee)
  • Family:  Tachykinin family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  Strong expression was detected in the queen and forager heads, while weak and almost no significant expression was detected in the nurse and drone heads, respectively.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Apis (genus), Apini (tribe), Apinae (subfamily), Apidae (family), Apoidea (superfamily), Aculeata (infraorder), Apocrita (suborder), Hymenoptera (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:0007268 chemical synaptic transmission; GO:0007610 behavior
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region; GO:0045202 synapse

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  ASFDDEYY
  • Length:  8(100-107)
  • Propeptide:  MIIHSIFLLMVSITLVIAEESDNVLFDKRAPTGHQEMQGKQNSASLNSENFGIFKRALMGFQGVRGKKNSIINDVKNELFPEDINKRAPMGFQGMRGKKASFDDEYYKRAPMGFQGMRGKKSLEEILDEIKKKTTRFQDSRSKDVYLIDYPEDYGKRVLSMDGYQNILDKKDELLGEWEKRAPMGFYGTRGKKIILDALEELDKRGVMDFQIGLQRKKDTTFDDYLDYAINPFDYEKRSTDFQDVESGSESFKRA
  • Signal peptide:  MIIHSIFLLMVSITLVIA
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Be active peptides which excite neurons, evoke behavioral responses, be potent vasodilators and secretagogues, and contract (directly or indirectly) many smooth muscles.
  • 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-Q868G6-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)
    •    hor004346_AF2.pdbhor004346_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 113403 Formula: C46H56N8O18
Absent amino acids: CGHIKLMNPQRTVW Common amino acids: DY
pI: 3.38 Basic residues: 0
Polar residues: 3 Hydrophobic residues: 2
Hydrophobicity: -116.25 Boman Index: -2314
Half-Life / Aliphatic Index: 4.4 hour Aliphatic Index: 12.5
Instability Index: 3960 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 2980
Absorbance 280nm: 425.71

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  17068263
  • Title:  From the Genome to the Proteome: Uncovering Peptides in the Apis Brain