| Primary information |
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| ID | 16897 |
| Uniprot ID | P30250 |
| Description | Pyrokinin-4 (Pef-PK-4) (YXPRL-amide) |
| Organism | Locusta migratoria |
| Txonomy | Periplaneta ; Blattinae ; Blattidae ; Blattoidea ; Blattodea ; Dictyoptera ; Polyneoptera (cohort); Neoptera (infraclass); Pterygota (subclass); Dicondylia ; Insecta ; Hexapoda ; Pancrustacea ; Mandibulata ; Arthropoda ; Panarthropoda ; Ecdysozoa ; Protostomia ; Bilateria ; Eumetazoa ; Metazoa ; Opisthokonta ; Eukaryota ; cellular organisms |
| Subcellular Location | secreted |
| Developmental Stage | NA |
| Similarity | Tachykinin family |
| Tissue Specificity | Expressed in the brain; subesophageal ganglion and in the retrocerebral complex (mainly corpora allata). |
| Post Translational Modification | T10 Arginine amide |
| Function | Myoactive peptide. Stimulates the contraction of the oviduct and foregut. |
| Length | 12 |
| Molecular Weight | 1 |
| Name | Locustatachykinin-4 |
| Sequence | APSLGFHGVR |
| Sequence map | NA |
| PDB ID | NA |
| Drugpedia | NA |
| Receptor | NA |
| Domain | NA |
| Pharmaceutical Use | NA
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