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preprotachykinin-B; preproneurokinin-B; tachykinin-3; contains: neurokinin-B; NKB; neuromedin-K (TAC3, NKNB, UNQ585/PRO1155)
Function:
- tachykinin precursor
Compartment: secreted
Alternative splicing: named isoforms=3
Expression:
1) in pregnancy, expression confined to outer syncytiotrophoblast of placenta
2) significant concentrations can be detected in plasma as early as week 9
Pathology:
1) plasma concentrations are grossly elevated in pregnancy- induced hypertension & pre-eclampsia
General
preprotachykinin
Properties
SIZE: MW = 13 kD
entity length = 121 aa
COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment
MOTIF: signal sequence {1-16}
proteolytic site
PRECURSOR-FOR: neurokinin-K
COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment
Database Correlations
OMIM 162330
MORBIDMAP 162330
UniProt Q9UHF0
Pfam PF03823
Entrez Gene 6866
Kegg hsa:6866
References
- OMIM :accession 162330
- UniProt :accession Q9UHF0