General Information

  • ID:  hor004896
  • Uniprot ID:  P67787
  • Protein name:  Adipokinetic hormone
  • Gene name:  NA
  • Organism:  Helicoverpa zea (Corn earworm moth) (Heliothis zea)
  • Family:  AKH/HRTH/RPCH family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  cells in the corpora cardiaca
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Helicoverpa (genus), Heliothinae (subfamily), Noctuidae (family), Noctuoidea (superfamily), Obtectomera, Ditrysia, Heteroneura (parvorder), Neolepidoptera (infraorder), Glossata (suborder), Lepidoptera (order), Amphiesmenoptera (superorder), 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:  GO:0005179 hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway; GO:0007629 flight behavior
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  QLTFTSSWG
  • Length:  9(1-9)
  • Propeptide:  QLTFTSSWG
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  T1 Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid;T9 Glycine amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  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)
    •    hor004896_AF2.pdbhor004896_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 116898 Formula: C47H67N11O15
Absent amino acids: ACDEHIKMNPRVY Common amino acids: ST
pI: 6.11 Basic residues: 0
Polar residues: 5 Hydrophobic residues: 3
Hydrophobicity: -13.33 Boman Index: -631
Half-Life / Aliphatic Index: 0.8 hour Aliphatic Index: 43.33
Instability Index: 3247.78 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 5500
Absorbance 280nm: 687.5

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  3964263
  • Title:  Isolation and primary structure of a peptide from the corpora cardiaca of Heliothis zea with adipokinetic activity.