Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot P01303 (NPY_HUMAN)

Names and origin

Protein names

Recommended name:
    Neuropeptide Y
Cleaved into the following 2 chains:
    1- Recommended name:
            Neuropeptide Y
        Alternative name(s):
            Neuropeptide tyrosine
              Short name=NPY
    2- Recommended name:
            C-flanking peptide of NPY
                Short name=CPON

Gene names

Name:

NPY

Organism

Homo sapiens (Human)

Taxonomic identifier

9606 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Eukaryota › Metazoa › Chordata › Craniata › Vertebrata › Euteleostomi › Mammalia › Eutheria › Euarchontoglires › Primates › Haplorrhini › Catarrhini › Hominidae › Homo

Protein attributes

Sequence length	97 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Sequence processing	The displayed sequence is further processed into a mature form.
Protein existence	Evidence at protein level.

General annotation (Comments)

Function	NPY is implicated in the control of feeding and in secretion of gonadotrophin-release hormone.
Subcellular location	Secreted.
Tissue specificity	One of the most abundant peptides in the nervous system. Also found in some chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the NPY family.

Ontologies

Keywords
Cellular component	Secreted
Coding sequence diversity	Polymorphism
Domain	Signal
Molecular function	Neuropeptide
PTM	Amidation Cleavage on pair of basic residues
Technical term	3D-structure
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	G-protein signaling, coupled to cyclic nucleotide second messenger Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc adult feeding behavior Inferred from sequence or structural similarity. Source: HGNC calcium ion transport Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc cell motion Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc cell proliferation Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc digestion Non-traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc neuropeptide signaling pathway Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW positive regulation of appetite Inferred from sequence or structural similarity. Source: HGNC synaptic transmission Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc
Cellular component	cell Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc extracellular space Inferred from sequence or structural similarity. Source: HGNC
Molecular function	G-protein coupled receptor activity Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc calcium channel regulator activity Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc neuropeptide hormone activity Ref.2 Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc
Complete GO annotation...

Sequence annotation (Features)

Feature key

Position(s)

Length

Description

Graphical view

Feature identifier

Molecule processing

Signal peptide

1 – 28

28

Ref.1

Peptide

29 – 64

36

Neuropeptide Y

PRO_0000025321

Peptide

68 – 97

30

C-flanking peptide of NPY

PRO_0000025322

Amino acid modifications

Modified residue

64

1

Tyrosine amide

Natural variations

Natural variant

7

1

L → P: dbSNP rs16139.

VAR_014598

Natural variant

22

1

L → M: dbSNP rs5571.

VAR_014599

Experimental info

Sequence conflict

53

1

R → G in AAA59945. Ref.2

Secondary structure

1

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97

Helix Strand Turn

Details...

Beta strand

31 – 33

3

Helix

41 – 44

4

Helix

46 – 63

18

Sequences

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	P01303-1 [UniParc]. Last modified July 21, 1986. Version 1. Checksum: 832CF124321718F2	FASTA	97	10,851
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MLGNKRLGLS GLTLALSLLV CLGALAEAYP SKPDNPGEDA PAEDMARYYS ALRHYINLIT 70 80 90 RQRYGKRSSP ETLISDLLMR ESTENVPRTR LEDPAMW

References

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[1]	"Cloning, characterization, and DNA sequence of a human cDNA encoding neuropeptide tyrosine." Minth C.D., Bloom S.R., Polak J.M., Dixon J.E. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:4577-4581(1984) [PubMed: 6589611] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA].
[2]	"Characterization, sequence, and expression of the cloned human neuropeptide Y gene." Minth C.D., Andrews P.C., Dixon J.E. J. Biol. Chem. 261:11974-11979(1986) [PubMed: 2427515] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [GENOMIC DNA].
[3]	"Genes encoding pancreatic polypeptide and neuropeptide Y are on human chromosomes 17 and 7." Takeuchi T., Gumucio D.L., Yamada T., Meisler M.H., Minth C.D., Dixon J.E., Eddy R.E., Shows T.B. J. Clin. Invest. 77:1038-1041(1986) [PubMed: 3753985] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA].
[4]	"The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7." Hillier L.W., Fulton R.S., Fulton L.A., Graves T.A., Pepin K.H., Wagner-McPherson C., Layman D., Maas J., Jaeger S., Walker R., Wylie K., Sekhon M., Becker M.C., O'Laughlin M.D., Schaller M.E., Fewell G.A., Delehaunty K.D., Miner T.L. , Nash W.E., Cordes M., Du H., Sun H., Edwards J., Bradshaw-Cordum H., Ali J., Andrews S., Isak A., Vanbrunt A., Nguyen C., Du F., Lamar B., Courtney L., Kalicki J., Ozersky P., Bielicki L., Scott K., Holmes A., Harkins R., Harris A., Strong C.M., Hou S., Tomlinson C., Dauphin-Kohlberg S., Kozlowicz-Reilly A., Leonard S., Rohlfing T., Rock S.M., Tin-Wollam A.-M., Abbott A., Minx P., Maupin R., Strowmatt C., Latreille P., Miller N., Johnson D., Murray J., Woessner J.P., Wendl M.C., Yang S.-P., Schultz B.R., Wallis J.W., Spieth J., Bieri T.A., Nelson J.O., Berkowicz N., Wohldmann P.E., Cook L.L., Hickenbotham M.T., Eldred J., Williams D., Bedell J.A., Mardis E.R., Clifton S.W., Chissoe S.L., Marra M.A., Raymond C., Haugen E., Gillett W., Zhou Y., James R., Phelps K., Iadanoto S., Bubb K., Simms E., Levy R., Clendenning J., Kaul R., Kent W.J., Furey T.S., Baertsch R.A., Brent M.R., Keibler E., Flicek P., Bork P., Suyama M., Bailey J.A., Portnoy M.E., Torrents D., Chinwalla A.T., Gish W.R., Eddy S.R., McPherson J.D., Olson M.V., Eichler E.E., Green E.D., Waterston R.H., Wilson R.K. Nature 424:157-164(2003) [PubMed: 12853948] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
[5]	"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)." The MGC Project Team Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004) [PubMed: 15489334] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Brain.
[6]	"Presence of the predicted C-flanking peptide of neuropeptide Y (CPON) in tissue extracts." Allen J.M., Polak J.M., Bloom S.R. Neuropeptides 6:95-100(1985) [PubMed: 3839058] [Abstract] Cited for: IDENTIFICATION OF CPON.
[7]	"Solution conformation of human neuropeptide Y by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance and restrained molecular dynamics." Darbon H., Bernassau J.-M., Deleuze C., Chenu J., Roussel A., Cambillau C. Eur. J. Biochem. 209:765-771(1992) [PubMed: 1425680] [Abstract] Cited for: STRUCTURE BY NMR OF 29-64.
[8]	"Solution structure of human neuropeptide Y." Monks S.A., Karagianis G., Howlett G.J., Norton R.S. J. Biomol. NMR 8:379-390(1996) [PubMed: 9008359] [Abstract] Cited for: STRUCTURE BY NMR OF 29-64.
[9]	"Helical structure and self-association in a 13 residue neuropeptide Y Y2 receptor agonist: relationship to biological activity." Barnham K.J., Catalfamo F., Pallaghy P.K., Howlett G.J., Norton R.S. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1435:127-137(1999) [PubMed: 10561544] [Abstract] Cited for: STRUCTURE BY NMR OF 52-64.
+	Additional computationally mapped references.

Web resources

Wikipedia

Neuropeptide Y entry

Cross-references

Sequence databases

EMBLGenBankDDBJ

K01911 mRNA. Translation: AAA59944.1.
M14298, M14296, M14297 Genomic DNA. Translation: AAA59945.1.
M15789 mRNA. Translation: AAA59946.1.
AC004485 Genomic DNA. Translation: AAQ96843.1.
BC029497 mRNA. Translation: AAH29497.1.

IPI

IPI00001506.

PIR

NYHUY. A25198.

RefSeq

NP_000896.1.

UniGene

Hs.1832

3D structure databases

PDBPDBe

Entry	Method	Resolution (Å)	Chain	Positions	PDBsum
1QFA	NMR	-	A	52-64	[»]
1RON	NMR	-	A	29-64	[»]

ModBase

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Proteomic databases

PRIDE

P01303.

Genome annotation databases

Ensembl

ENSG00000122585. Homo sapiens. [Contig view]

GeneID

4852.

KEGG

hsa:4852.

Organism-specific databases

GeneCards

GC07P024290.

H-InvDB

HIX0006525.

HGNC

HGNC:7955. NPY.

MIM

162640. gene.

PharmGKB

PA255.

GenAtlas

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Phylogenomic databases

HOVERGEN

P01303.

OMA

P01303. ESTENIP.

Gene expression databases

ArrayExpress

P01303.

Bgee

P01303.

CleanEx

HS_NPY.

GermOnline

ENSG00000122585. Homo sapiens.

Family and domain databases

InterPro

IPR001955. Pancreatic_hormone.
[Graphical view]

PANTHER

PTHR10533. Pancreatic_hormone. 1 hit.

Pfam

PF00159. Hormone_3. 1 hit.
[Graphical view]

PRINTS

PR00278. PANCHORMONE.

ProDom

PD001267. Pancreatic_hormn. 1 hit.
[Graphical view] [Entries sharing at least one domain]

SMART

SM00309. PAH. 1 hit.
[Graphical view]

PROSITE

PS00265. PANCREATIC_HORMONE_1. 1 hit.
PS50276. PANCREATIC_HORMONE_2. 1 hit.
[Graphical view]

ProtoNet

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Other Resources

NextBio

18688.

PMAP-CutDB

P01303.

SOURCE

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Entry information

Entry name

NPY_HUMAN

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: P01303

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	July 21, 1986
Last sequence update:	July 21, 1986
Last modified:	June 16, 2009
This is version 106 of the entry and version 1 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HPI (Human Proteome Initiative)