General Information

  • ID:  hor005981
  • Uniprot ID:  P56943
  • Protein name:  Neuropeptide-glutamic acid-valine
  • Gene name:  mch1
  • Organism:  Oncorhynchus kisutch (Coho salmon) (Salmo kisutch)
  • Family:  MCH family
  • Source:  animal
  • Expression:  Pituitary gland. Produced in neurons of lateral basal hypothalamus which project both to the brain and to the neural lobe of the pituitary gland from where MCH is released.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:  Oncorhynchus (genus), Salmoninae (subfamily), Salmonidae (family), Salmoniformes (order), Protacanthopterygii, Euteleosteomorpha (cohort), Clupeocephala, Osteoglossocephalai, Teleostei (infraclass), Neopterygii (subclass), Actinopteri (class), Actinopterygii (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:0030354 melanin-concentrating hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway; GO:0007268 chemical synaptic transmission
  • GO CC:  GO:0045202 synapse

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  EADQDLSPSISIV
  • Length:  13
  • Propeptide:  MRDSVLSVIFALALFLECYTPSMAIPMGKMEDTALEQDTLDSLLNESVADKNPDSVRSGSSKIIVLADSGMWKNLNRGLPLYKLKAAAAGLDRALTLDRREADQDLSPSISIVRRDTMRCMVGRVYRPCWEV
  • Signal peptide:  MRDSVLSVIFALALFLECYTPSMA
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Plays a role in skin pigmentation by antagonizing the action of melanotropin alpha. Induces melanin concentration within the melanophores. May participate in the control of the hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal gland axis by inhibiting the release of ACTH.
  • 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-P56943-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)
  •    hor005981_AF2.pdbhor005981_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 158771 Formula: C58H96N14O24
Absent amino acids: CFGHKMNRTWY Common amino acids: S
pI: 3.38 Basic residues: 0
Polar residues: 3 Hydrophobic residues: 5
Hydrophobicity: 6.15 Boman Index: -1938
Half-Life: 1 hour Half-Life Yeast: 30 min
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 120
Instability Index: 5960 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 0
Absorbance 280nm: 0

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  NA
  • Title:  NA