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Preferred Name

Proglucagon
Synonyms

Proglucagon

Preproglucagon

Pro-Glucagon

Definitions

Proglucagon (180 aa, ~21 kDa) is encoded by the human GCG gene. This protein is involved in appetite, digestion, and glucose metabolism and homeostasis.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C136747

code

C136747

DEFINITION

Proglucagon (180 aa, ~21 kDa) is encoded by the human GCG gene. This protein is involved in appetite, digestion, and glucose metabolism and homeostasis.

DesignNote

Preproglucagon is a precursor for glicentin, glicentin-related polypeptide (GRPP), oxyntomodulin (OXY, OXM), glucagon, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), glucagon-like peptide 1(7-37) (GLP-1(7-37)), glucagon-like peptide 1(7-36) (GLP-1(7-36)), and glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2). (UniProt)

FULL_SYN

Proglucagon

Preproglucagon

Pro-Glucagon

label

Proglucagon

OMIM_Number

138030

Preferred_Name

Proglucagon

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C136747

Semantic_Type

Amino Acid, Peptide, or Protein

Swiss_Prot

P01275

UMLS_CUI

C0072092

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C136748

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