General Information

  • ID:  hor006717
  • Uniprot ID:  P07474
  • Protein name:  Glycoprotein hormones alpha chain
  • Gene name:  CGA
  • Organism:  Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit)
  • Family:  Glycoprotein hormones subunit alpha family
  • Source:  Animal
  • Expression:  NA
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:   Oryctolagus (genus), Leporidae (family), Lagomorpha (order), Glires , 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:0016913 follicle-stimulating hormone activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0007186 G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway; GO:0010469 regulation of signaling receptor activity; GO:0010893 positive regulation of steroid biosynthetic process
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region; GO:0005615 extracellular space; GO:0016914 follicle-stimulating hormone complex; GO:0061696 pituitary gonadotropin complex

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  FPDGEFAMQGCPECKLKENKYFSKLGAPIYQCMGCCFSRAYPTPARSKKTMLVPKNITSEATCCVAKAFTKATVMGNAKVENHTECHCSTCYYHKS
  • Length:  96(25-120)
  • Propeptide:  MGYYRKYAAVILATLSVFLHILHSFPDGEFAMQGCPECKLKENKYFSKLGAPIYQCMGCCFSRAYPTPARSKKTMLVPKNITSEATCCVAKAFTKATVMGNAKVENHTECHCSTCYYHKS
  • Signal peptide:  MGYYRKYAAVILATLSVFLHILHS
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  T56 N-linked (GlcNAc...) asparagine;T82 N-linked (GlcNAc...) asparagine
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Shared alpha chain of the active heterodimeric glycoprotein hormones thyrotropin/thyroid stimulating hormone/TSH, lutropin/luteinizing hormone/LH and follitropin/follicle stimulating hormone/FSH. These hormones bind specific receptors on target cells that
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NA
  • Target:  NA
  • Target Unid:  NA
  • IC50: NA
  • EC50: NA
  • ED50: NA
  • kd: NA
  • Half life: NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  11-35; 14-64; 32-86; 36-88; 63-91
  • Structure ID:  AF-P07474-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)
    •    hor006717_AF2.pdbhor006717_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 1235809 Formula: C463H721N125O136S14
Absent amino acids: W Common amino acids: KC
pI: 8.56 Basic residues: 16
Polar residues: 38 Hydrophobic residues: 23
Hydrophobicity: -36.98 Boman Index: -13490
Half-Life: 1.1 hour Half-Life Yeast: 3 min
Half-Life E.Coli: 2 min Aliphatic Index 41.77
Instability Index: 5162.71 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 8075
Absorbance 280nm: 85

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  12112597
  • Title:  Comparison of glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunits of laboratory animals.