General Information

  • ID:  hor003884
  • Uniprot ID:  P11280
  • Protein name:  Melanocyte-stimulating hormone beta
  • Gene name:  pomc
  • Organism:  Neovison vison (American mink) (Mustela vison)
  • Family:  POMC family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  ACTH and MSH are produced by the pituitary gland.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Neogale (genus), Mustelinae (subfamily), Mustelidae (family), Caniformia (suborder), Carnivora (order), Laurasiatheria (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:  DDGPYKMEHFRWGSPGKD
  • Length:  18(92-109)
  • Propeptide:  SEPGRREGKRSYSMEHFRWGKPVGKKRRPVKVYPNGAEDESAEAFPLEFKRELAGERPEPALGPEGAAEGMAALADLEYGLVAKAEVAEKKDDGPYKMEHFRWGSPGKDKRYGGFMTSEKSQTPLVTLFKNAIIKNAHKKGQ
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Increases the pigmentation of skin by increasing melanin production in melanocytes.
  • 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-P11280-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)
    •    hor003884_AF2.pdbhor003884_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 242570 Formula: C94H132N26O29S
Absent amino acids: ACILNQTV Common amino acids: DG
pI: 5.57 Basic residues: 4
Polar residues: 5 Hydrophobic residues: 2
Hydrophobicity: -178.89 Boman Index: -5671
Half-Life: 1.1 hour Half-Life Yeast: 3 min
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 0
Instability Index: 6336.11 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 6990
Absorbance 280nm: 411.18

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  3382437
  • Title:  [Synthesis, Cloning and Primary Structure of cDNA for Proopiomelanocortin From the Pituitary Gland of the Mink (Mustella Vison)]