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peptide YY-2; peptide YY2 (PYY2)

Structure: belongs to the NPY family Compartment: secreted Expression: expressed mainly in the testis & prostate Note: - could be the product of a pseudogene - a few point mutations in the signal peptide region of the PYY2 gene & in several other regions results in destruction of the normal initiation code, generation of an alternative initiation site & an early stop codon which reduces the predicated size of the peptide to only 33 amino acid residues

General

secreted protein

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 33 aa MW = 3 kD COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment MOTIF: signal sequence {1-18}

Database Correlations

OMIM 606637 UniProt Q9NRI6

References

UniProt :accession Q9NRI6