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neuropeptide Y; Proneuropeptide Y contains: neuropeptide Y; neuropeptide tyrosine; NPY; C-flanking peptide of NPY; CPON (NPY)
Function:
- implicated in the control of feeding
- role in secretion of gonadotrophin-release hormone
Structure: belongs to the NPY family
Compartment: secreted
Expression:
- one of the most abundant peptides in the nervous system
- also found in some chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla
Related
neuropeptide Y receptor
General
neuropeptide
Properties
SIZE: entity length = 97 aa
MW = 11 kD
COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment
MOTIF: signal sequence {1-28}
Database Correlations
OMIM 162640
UniProt P01303
Pfam PF00159
Entrez Gene 4852
Kegg hsa:4852
References
- UniProt :accession P01303
- Wikipedia; Note: neuropeptide Y entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neuropeptide_Y