General Information

  • ID:  hor005165
  • Uniprot ID:  P83683
  • Protein name:  Orexigenic neuropeptide 26RFa
  • Gene name:  NA
  • Organism:  Pelophylax lessonae (Pool frog) (Rana lessonae)
  • Family:  RFamide neuropeptide family
  • Source:  animal
  • Expression:  Brain.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Pelophylax (genus), Ranidae (family), Ranoidea (superfamily), Neobatrachia (suborder), Anura (order), Batrachia (superorder), Amphibia (class), 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:0005184 neuropeptide hormone activity; GO:0031854 orexigenic neuropeptide QRFP receptor binding
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway
  • GO CC:  GO:0005575 cellular_component; GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  VGTALGSLAEELNGYNRKKGGFSFRF
  • Length:  26
  • Propeptide:  VGTALGSLAEELNGYNRKKGGFSFRF
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  T26 Phenylalanine amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  May have orexigenic activity and act as a hypophysiotropic neurohormone. This neuropeptide is involved in the control of feeding behavior.
  • Mechanism:  It activates adenylyl cyclase activity in rat pituitary cells
  • 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-P83683-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)
  •    AF-P83683-F1.pdbhor005165_AF2.pdbhor005165_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 326526 Formula: C127H196N36O37
Absent amino acids: CDHIMPQW Common amino acids: G
pI: 10.24 Basic residues: 4
Polar residues: 11 Hydrophobic residues: 9
Hydrophobicity: -33.85 Boman Index: -4129
Half-Life: 100 hour Half-Life Yeast: >20 hour
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 63.85
Instability Index: 805.77 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 1490
Absorbance 280nm: 59.6

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  14657341
  • Title:  Identification of 26RFa, a hypothalamic neuropeptide of the RFamide peptide family with orexigenic activity.