General Information

  • ID:  hor002327
  • Uniprot ID:  P01362
  • Protein name:  Egg-laying hormone(15-36)
  • Gene name:  NA
  • Organism:  Aplysia californica (California sea hare)
  • Family:  Molluscan ELH family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  Bag cell neurons.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Aplysia (genus), Aplysiidae (family), Aplysioidea (superfamily), Aplysiida (order), Tectipleura, Euthyneura, Heterobranchia (subclass), Gastropoda (class), Mollusca (phylum), Lophotrochozoa, Spiralia, Protostomia, Bilateria, Eumetazoa, Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta, Eukaryota (superkingdom), cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  GO:0005179 hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  LTEQIRERQRYLADLRQRLLEK
  • Length:  22(220-241)
  • Propeptide:  MKRPNNRPTNTMSLILCLTLSSLCVSSQSASVHGKNFATNRAVKSSSPFVVLSPDDNVVSMSGENGYRSALREAFDKSSRDYDDNGEDVFSNEKRRLRFHKRRLRFDRRDQDEGNFRRFPTNAVSMSADENSPFDLSNEDGAVYQRDLRAPRLRFYSLRKRAAGGMEQSEGQNPETESHSRRKRSVLTPSLSSLGESLESGISKRISINQDLKAITDMLLTEQIRERQRYLADLRQRLLEKGKRSSGVSLLTSNK
  • Signal peptide:  MKRPNNRPTNTMSLILCLTLSSLCVSSQ
  • Modification:  T22 Lysine amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  ELH acts as a neurotransmitter locally, upon neurons of the abdominal ganglion and as a hormone by diffusing into the circulating hemolymph and modulating the activity of other organs. It specifically causes contraction of smooth muscle in the ovotestis a
  • 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-P01362-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)
    •    hor002327_AF2.pdbhor002327_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 320303 Formula: C122H211N41O36
Absent amino acids: CFGHMNPSVW Common amino acids: LR
pI: 10.42 Basic residues: 6
Polar residues: 2 Hydrophobic residues: 7
Hydrophobicity: -125.45 Boman Index: -9730
Half-Life: 5.5 hour Half-Life Yeast: 3 min
Half-Life E.Coli: 2 min Aliphatic Index 110.91
Instability Index: 4603.18 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 1490
Absorbance 280nm: 70.95

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  9520477
  • Title:  Proteolytic Processing of the Aplysia Egg-Laying Hormone Prohormone