General Information

  • ID:  hor004852
  • Uniprot ID:  P84242
  • Protein name:  Adipokinetic hormone
  • Gene name:  N/A
  • Organism:  Pachnoda marginata (Flower beetle)
  • Family:  AKH/HRTH/RPCH family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  NA
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Pachnoda (genus), Cetoniinae (subfamily), Scarabaeidae (family), Scarabaeoidea (superfamily), Scarabaeiformia (infraorder), Polyphaga (suborder), Coleoptera (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:  QLNYSPDW
  • Length:  8(1-8)
  • Propeptide:  QLNYSPDW
  • 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:  NO
  • 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)
    •    hor004852_AF2.pdbhor004852_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 114712 Formula: C47H63N11O15
Absent amino acids: ACEFGHIKMRTV Common amino acids: DLNPQSWY
pI: 3.75 Basic residues: 0
Polar residues: 3 Hydrophobic residues: 2
Hydrophobicity: -141.25 Boman Index: -1719
Half-Life: 0.8 hour Half-Life Yeast: 10 min
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 48.75
Instability Index: 5425 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 6990
Absorbance 280nm: 998.57

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  1586453
  • Title:  Primary structures of neuropeptides isolated from the corpora cardiaca of various cetonid beetle species determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing and tandem fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry.