urocortin-2; urocortin II; Ucn II; stresscopin-related peptide; urocortin-related peptide (UCN2, SRP, URP)

Function: - suppresses food intake - delays gastric emptying - decreases heat-induced edema - might represent an endogenous ligand for maintaining homeostasis after stress - binds with high affinity to CRF receptor-2 alpha & beta Structure: - belongs to the sauvagine/corticotropin-releasing factor/urotensin I family Compartment: secreted

Related

urocortin (UCN) urocortin-3; urocortin III; Ucn III; stresscopin (UCN3, SPC)

General

hormone peptide

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 112 aa MW = 12 kD MOTIF: signal sequence {1-19}

Database Correlations

OMIM 605902 UniProt Q96RP3 Entrez Gene 90226 Kegg hsa:90226

References

UniProt :accession Q96RP3