General Information

  • ID:  hor005849
  • Uniprot ID:  Q23212
  • Protein name:  NPLGTMRF-amide
  • Gene name:  flp-3
  • Organism:  Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Family:  FARP (FMRFamide related peptide) family
  • Source:  animal
  • Expression:  Expressed from the comma stage of embryogenesis, during all larval stages, and in adults. |Each flp gene is expressed in a distinct set of neurons. Flp-3 is expressed in the IL1 and PQR neurons.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Caenorhabditis (genus), Peloderinae (subfamily), Rhabditidae (family), Rhabditoidea (superfamily), Rhabditomorpha (infraorder), Rhabditina (suborder), Rhabditida (order), Chromadorea (class), Nematoda (phylum), Ecdysozoa, Protostomia, Bilateria, Eumetazoa, Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta, Eukaryota (superkingdom), cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  NA
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway; GO:0043051 regulation of nematode pharyngeal pumping; GO:0045759 negative regulation of action potential
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  NPLGTMRF
  • Length:  8
  • Propeptide:  MISPNHLILLFCVNCAFLVASDATPKRSPLGTMRFGKRAIADEMTFEEDGYYPSNVMWKRSTVDSSEPVIRDQRTPLGTMRFGKRSAEPFGTMRFGKRNPENDTPFGTMRFGKRASEDALFGTMRFGKREDGNAPFGTMKFGKREAEEPLGTMRFGKRSADDSAPFGTMRFGKRNPLGTMRFGK
  • Signal peptide:  MISPNHLILLFCVNCAFLVASDA
  • Modification:  T8 Phenylalanine amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  FMRFamides and FMRFamide-like peptides are neuropeptides. SAEPFGTMRF-amide inhibits the activity of dissected pharyngeal myogenic muscle system.
  • 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-Q23212-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)
  •    hor005849_AF2.pdbhor005849_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 106014 Formula: C41H66N12O11S
Absent amino acids: ACDEHIKQSVWY Common amino acids: FGLMNPRT
pI: 10.55 Basic residues: 1
Polar residues: 3 Hydrophobic residues: 2
Hydrophobicity: -27.5 Boman Index: -1294
Half-Life: 1.4 hour Half-Life Yeast: 3 min
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 48.75
Instability Index: -1488.75 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 0
Absorbance 280nm: 0

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  9685599
  • Title:  FMRFamide-related gene family in the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans.
  • PubMed ID:  9851916
  • Title:  Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: a platform for investigating biology.
  • PubMed ID:  16061202
  • Title:  Discovering neuropeptides in Caenorhabditis elegans by two dimensional liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
  • PubMed ID:  15236235
  • Title:  Expression and regulation of an FMRFamide-related neuropeptide gene family in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  • PubMed ID:  16187307
  • Title:  Role of a FMRFamide-like family of neuropeptides in the pharyngeal nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans.