muscles

General Information (Source: NCBI Gene,UniProt)

Text mining Term muscles
UniProt ID AKH_HELZE
Name Hez-AKH
Adipokinetic hormone
Gene Names
Taxonomy Helicoverpa zea

General annotation

Function This hormone, released from cells in the corpora cardiaca after the beginning of flight, causes release of diglycerides from the fat body and then stimulates the flight muscles to use these diglycerides as an energy source.
Subcellular location Secreted.

Gene Ontology

GO:0007218 neuropeptide signaling pathway BP
GO:0007629 flight behavior BP
GO:0005179 hormone activity MF
GO:0005576 extracellular region CC

Sequence

>gi|54040653|sp|P67787.1|AKH_HELZE RecName: Full=Adipokinetic hormone; AltName: Full=Hez-AKH
QLTFTSSWG

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