General Information

  • ID:  hor004841
  • Uniprot ID:  P14595
  • Protein name:  Adipokinetic hormone
  • Gene name:  N/A
  • Organism:  Tabanus atratus (Black horse fly)
  • Family:  AKH/HRTH/RPCH family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  NA
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Tabanus (genus), Tabanini (tribe), Tabaninae (subfamily), Tabanidae (family), Tabanoidea (superfamily), Tabanomorpha (infraorder), Brachycera (suborder), Diptera (order), Endopterygota (cohort), Neoptera (infraclass), Pterygota (subclass), Dicondylia, Insecta (class), Hexapoda (subphylum), Pancrustacea, Mandibulata, Arthropoda (phylum), Panarthropoda, Ecdysozoa, Protostomia, Bilateria, Eumetazoa, Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta, Eukaryota (superkingdom), cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  GO:0005179 hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway; GO:0007629 flight behavior
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  QLTFTPGW
  • Length:  8(1-8)
  • Propeptide:  QLTFTPGW
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  T1 Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid;T8 Tryptophan amide
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  This hormone, released from cells in the corpora cardiaca, causes release of diglycerides from the fat body and stimulation of muscles to use these diglycerides as an energy source during energy-demanding processes.
  • 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:  NA

  • 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)
    •    hor004841_AF2.pdbhor004841_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 107411 Formula: C46H64N10O12
Absent amino acids: ACDEHIKMNRSVY Common amino acids: T
pI: 6.11 Basic residues: 0
Polar residues: 3 Hydrophobic residues: 3
Hydrophobicity: -15 Boman Index: 49
Half-Life: 0.8 hour Half-Life Yeast: 10 min
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 48.75
Instability Index: 3960 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 5500
Absorbance 280nm: 785.71

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  2813385
  • Title:  Primary structure of two neuropeptide hormones with adipokinetic and hypotrehalosemic activity isolated from the corpora cardiaca of horse flies (Diptera).