A database of hormones and their receptors |
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HMRbase accession number | 10700 |
Swiss-prot Accession number | P08871 (Sequence in FASTA format) |
Description | Pigment-dispersing hormone (PDH) (Beta-PDH) (Light-adapting distalretinal pigment hormone) (DRPH). |
Source organism | Uca pugilator (Atlantic sand fiddler crab) (Celuca pugilator) |
Taxonomical Classification | Eukaryota; Metazoa; Arthropoda; Crustacea; Malacostraca;Eumalacostraca; Eucarida; Decapoda; Pleocyemata; Brachyura;Eubrachyura; Ocypodoidea; Ocypodidae; Ocypodinae; Uca complex; Celuca. |
Subcellular location | Secreted protein |
Developmental Stage | N/A |
Similarity | Belongs to the arthropod PDH family. |
Tissue Specificity | N/A |
Post translational modification | N/A |
Function | Causes the migration of the distal retinal pigment into the proximal end of the pigment chromatophore cells and thus decreases the amount of light entering the retinulas |
Protein Length | 18 Amino acids |
Molecular weight | 1928 |
References | 1 PubMed abstract 16593589 2 PubMed abstract 8472537 |
Domain Name | Pigment_DH |
Hormone Name | Pigment-dispersing hormone |
Mature Hormone Sequence | NSELINSILGLPKVMNDA |
Position of mature hormone in Pre-Hormone protein | 18 Residues from position (1-18) |
Receptor | N/A |
Gene ID | N/A |
PDB ID | N/A |
Drugpedia | wiki |
Comments | !Receptor for this Hormone are either unknown or have not yet been curated |