General Information

  • ID:  hor004839
  • Uniprot ID:  B3A0F2
  • Protein name:  Adipokinetic hormone
  • Gene name:  N/A
  • Organism:  Austrophasma gansbaaiense (Gladiator) (Heel-walker)
  • Family:  AKH/HRTH/RPCH family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  cells in the corpora cardiaca
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Austrophasma (genus), Austrophasmatidae (family), Mantophasmatodea (order), Polyneoptera (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:  GO:0005179 hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway; GO:0007629 flight behavior
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  QVNFTPGW
  • Length:  8(1-8)
  • Propeptide:  QVNFTPGW
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  T1 Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid;T8 Tryptophan amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  This hormone, released from cells in the corpora cardiaca, causes release of diglycerides from the fat body and stimulation of muscles to use these diglycerides as an energy source during energy-demanding processes.
  • 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)
    •    hor004839_AF2.pdbhor004839_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 107308 Formula: C45H61N11O12
Absent amino acids: ACDEHIKLMRSY Common amino acids: FGNPQTVW
pI: 6.11 Basic residues: 0
Polar residues: 3 Hydrophobic residues: 3
Hydrophobicity: -45 Boman Index: -446
Half-Life / Aliphatic Index: 0.8 hour Aliphatic Index: 36.25
Instability Index: -403.75 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 5500
Absorbance 280nm: 785.71

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  22508719
  • Title:  Peptidomics-based phylogeny and biogeography of Mantophasmatodea (Hexapoda).