A database of hormones and their receptors| 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 |