General Information

  • ID:  hor003875
  • Uniprot ID:  P01201
  • Protein name:  Lipotropin gamma
  • Gene name:  pomc
  • Organism:  Macaca nemestrina (Pig-tailed macaque)
  • Family:  POMC family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  ACTH and MSH are produced by the pituitary gland.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Macaca (genus), Cercopithecinae (subfamily), Cercopithecidae (family), Cercopithecoidea (superfamily), Catarrhini (parvorder), Simiiformes (infraorder), Haplorrhini (suborder), Primates (order), Euarchontoglires (superorder), Boreoeutheria, Eutheria, Theria, Mammalia (class), Amniota, 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:0005179 hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  ELTGQRPRAGDGPDGPADDGAGPRADLEHSLLVAAEKKDEGPYRMEHFRWGSPPKD
  • Length:  56(176-231)
  • Propeptide:  MPRSCCSRSGALLLALLLQASMEVRGWCLESSQCQDLTTESNLLECIRACKPDLSAETPVFPGNGDEQPLTENPRKYVMGHFRWDRFGRRNSSSGSAHQKREDVAAGEDRGLLPEGGPEPRGDGAGPGPREGKRSYSMEHFRWGKPVGKKRRPVKVYPNGAEDESAEAFPLEFKRELTGQRPRAGDGPDGPADDGAGPRADLEHSLLVAAEKKDEGPYRMEHFRWGSPPKDKRYGGFMTSEKSQTPLVTLFKNAI
  • Signal peptide:  MPRSCCSRSGALLLALLLQASMEVRG
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  [Corticotropin]: Stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol.; [Melanocyte-stimulating hormone alpha]: Anorexigenic peptide. Increases the pigmentation of skin by increasing melanin production in melanocytes.; [Melanocyte-stimulating hormone beta]:
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NA
  • Target:  MC4R
  • Target Unid:  A0A2K6B127
  • IC50: NA
  • EC50: NA
  • ED50: NA
  • kd: NA
  • Half life: NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  NA
  • Structure ID:  AF-P01201-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)
    •    hor003875_AF2.pdbhor003875_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 703580 Formula: C260H400N80O86S
Absent amino acids: CIN Common amino acids: GDP
pI: 4.7 Basic residues: 10
Polar residues: 12 Hydrophobic residues: 13
Hydrophobicity: -125.18 Boman Index: -16095
Half-Life: 1 hour Half-Life Yeast: 30 min
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 43.75
Instability Index: 1869.46 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 6990
Absorbance 280nm: 127.09

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  3229286
  • Title:  Characterization of pro-opiomelanocortin cDNA from the Old World monkey, Macaca nemestrina