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

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

General

hormone peptide

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 161 aa MW = 18 kD MOTIF: signal sequence {1-21}

Database Correlations

OMIM 605901 UniProt Q969E3 Entrez Gene 114131 Kegg hsa:114131

References

UniProt :accession Q969E3