Peptide Research

Nesfatin-1 is an 82-amino-acid anorexigenic peptide derived from the NUCB2 precursor protein, first identified in 2006 by Oh-I and colleagues

Somatostatin is a cyclic tetradecapeptide (SST-14) and its N-terminally extended 28-amino-acid form (SST-28) that functions as a master inhibitory signal

Neurotensin is a tridecapeptide, pGlu-Leu-Tyr-Glu-Asn-Lys-Pro-Arg-Arg-Pro-Tyr-Ile-Leu, acting at two G protein-coupled receptors, NTS1 and NTS2, and at sortilin, and neurotensin peptide

Neuropeptide S is a twenty-residue brainstem peptide, sequence SFRNGVGTGMKKTSFQRAKS in humans, that acts at a single G protein-coupled receptor, NPSR1,

Galanin is a 29 amino acid neuropeptide (30 amino acids in humans) that acts as a co-transmitter and neuromodulator across

Arginine vasopressin is a disulfide-bridged nonapeptide, Cys-Tyr-Phe-Gln-Asn-Cys-Pro-Arg-Gly-NH2, acting at three receptors with three different couplings, and vasopressin peptide research is

Ghrelin is a 28-residue peptide hormone from the stomach, n-octanoylated on serine 3, that is the endogenous ligand of the

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is one of the most abundant neuropeptides in the mammalian central nervous system, a 36-residue C-terminally amidated

LEAP-2 (liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide-2) is an endogenous peptide that functions as a competitive antagonist and inverse agonist at the growth

Orexin-A (hypocretin-1) is a 33-amino acid neuropeptide produced exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus that acts as the central coordinator of