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Encyclopedia > Alpha subunit of glycoprotein hormones
[[Image:|250px|Alpha subunit of glycoprotein hormones chemical structure]]
Alpha subunit of glycoprotein hormones
Identifiers
Symbol(s) CGA
Entrez 1081
OMIM 118850
RefSeq NM_000735
UniProt P01215
PDB [1]
Other data
EC number [2]
Locus Chr. 6 q14-q21

The Alpha subunit of glycoprotein hormones is a peptide formed by gene found on chromosome 6. It serves as the alpha protein subunit for the following four hormones: Hugo is a masculine name. ... The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. ... The Mendelian Inheritance in Man project is a database that catalogues all the known diseases with a genetic component, and - when possible - links them to the relevant genes in the human genome. ... The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is a branch of the US National Institutes of Health. ... Swiss-Prot is a curated biological database of protein sequences created in 1986 by Amos Bairoch during his PhD and developed by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the European Bioinformatics Institute. ... The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for 3-D structural data of proteins and nucleic acids. ... The Enzyme Commission number (EC number) is a numerical classification scheme for enzymes, based on the chemical reactions they catalyze. ... In biology and evolutionary computation, a locus is the position of a gene (or other significant sequence) on a chromosome. ... Chromosome 6 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. ... Peptides (from the Greek πεπτος, digestible), are the family of short molecules formed from the linking, in a defined order, of various α-amino acids. ... Chromosome 6 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. ... In structural biology, a protein subunit or subunit protein is a single protein molecule that assembles (or coassembles) with other protein molecules to form a multimeric or oligomeric protein. ... Hormone is also the NATO reporting name for the Soviet/Russian Kamov Ka-25 military helicopter. ...

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