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Product Name
Rhesus AGRP (Fc Tag) recombinant protein
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Description
Agouti Related Protein (AGRP, or AGRT), is an endogenous antagonist of the melanocortin receptors MC3R and MC4R found in the hypothalamus and exhibits potent orexigenic activity. AGRP can act as a competitive antagonist to proopiomelanocortin (POMC)-derived peptides at the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R), and that this homeostatic mechanism is important as a means of coordinating appetite with perceived metabolic requirement. AGRP is upregulated by fasting while intracerebroventricular injections of synthetic AGRP lead to increased appetite and food intake. Thus, AGRP is a powerful orexigenic peptide that increases food intake when ubiquitously overexpressed or when administered centrally.
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Protein name
Agouti-related protein
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Protein short names
ART; AGRP; ASIP2; MGC118963; AGRT
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Uniprot ID
F7H591
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Gene Name
AGRP; EGK_12895
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Source/Expression Host
Human Cells
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Expression Plasmid/cDNA
A DNA sequence encoding the rhesus AGRP (XP_001091740.1) (Ser83-Thr132) was expressed with the Fc region of mouse IgG1 at the N-terminus.
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Protein Species
Rhesus
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Molecular weight
The recombinant rhesus AGRP consists 286 amino acids and predicts a molecular mass of 32.3 kDa.
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Purity
> (61.9+32.4) % as determined by SDS-PAGE.
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Validations
AGRP protein SDS-PAGE
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