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Evolution of neuropeptide Y/RFamide-like receptors in nematodes

Heliyon
The Neuropeptide Y/RFamide-like receptors belong to the Rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and are involved in functions such as locomotion, feeding and reproduction.
Franziska Reinhardt, Anette Kaiser, Simone Prömel, Peter F. Stadler   +3 more
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Neuropeptide System Regulation of Prefrontal Cortex Circuitry: Implications for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022
Neuropeptides, a diverse class of signaling molecules in the nervous system, modulate various biological effects including membrane excitability, synaptic transmission and synaptogenesis, gene expression, and glial cell architecture and function. To date,
Sanne M. Casello, Rodolfo J. Flores, Hector E. Yarur, Huikun Wang, Monique Awanyai, Miguel A. Arenivar, Rosario B. Jaime-Lara, Rosario B. Jaime-Lara, Hector Bravo-Rivera, Hugo A. Tejeda   +9 more
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Neuropeptide G Protein-Coupled Receptors as Oncotargets

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2018
Neuropeptide G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are overexpressed on numerous cancer cells. In a number of tumors, such as small cell lung cancer (SCLC), bombesin (BB) like peptides and neurotensin (NTS) function as autocrine growth factors whereby they
Terry W. Moody, Irene Ramos-Alvarez, Robert T. Jensen   +2 more
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Transcriptomic analysis of crustacean neuropeptide signaling during the moult cycle in the green shore crab, Carcinus maenas

BMC Genomics, 2018
Background Ecdysis is an innate behaviour programme by which all arthropods moult their exoskeletons. The complex suite of interacting neuropeptides that orchestrate ecdysis is well studied in insects, but details of the crustacean ecdysis cassette are ...
Andrew Oliphant, Jodi L. Alexander, Martin T. Swain, Simon G. Webster, David C. Wilcockson   +4 more
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Coleoptera genome and transcriptome sequences reveal numerous differences in neuropeptide signaling between species [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Insect neuropeptides are interesting for the potential their receptors hold as plausible targets for a novel generation of pesticides. Neuropeptide genes have been identified in a number of different species belonging to a variety of insects ...
Jan A. Veenstra
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Structure of the human galanin receptor 2 bound to galanin and Gq reveals the basis of ligand specificity and how binding affects the G-protein interface.

PLoS Biology, 2022
Galanin is a neuropeptide expressed in the central and peripheral nervous systems, where it regulates various processes including neuroendocrine release, cognition, and nerve regeneration.
Yunseok Heo, Naito Ishimoto, Ye-Eun Jeon, Ji-Hye Yun, Mio Ohki, Yuki Anraku, Mina Sasaki, Shunsuke Kita, Hideo Fukuhara, Tatsuya Ikuta, Kouki Kawakami, Asuka Inoue, Katsumi Maenaka, Jeremy R H Tame, Weontae Lee, Sam-Yong Park   +15 more
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Copy number alteration of neuropeptides and receptors in multiple cancers

Scientific Reports, 2017
Neuropeptides are peptide hormones used as chemical signals by the neuroendocrine system to communicate between cells. Recently, neuropeptides have been recognized for their ability to act as potent cellular growth factors on many cell types, including ...
Min Zhao, Tianfang Wang, Qi Liu, Scott Cummins   +3 more
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Regulation of neurosteroid biosynthesis by neurotransmitters and neuropeptides

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2012
The enzymatic pathways leading to the synthesis of bioactive steroids in the brain are now almost completely elucidated in various groups of vertebrates and, during the last decade, the neuronal mechanisms involved in the regulation of neurosteroid ...
Jean-Luc eDo-Rego, Jae Young eSeong, Delphine eBurel, Jérôme eLEPRINCE, David eVaudry, David eVaudry, Van eLuu-The, Marie-Christine eTonon, Marie-Christine eTonon, Kazuyoshi eTsutsui, Georges ePelletier, Hubert eVaudry, Hubert eVaudry   +12 more
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A Promising Therapeutic Target for Metabolic Diseases: Neuropeptide Y Receptors in Humans

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2017
Human neuropeptide Y (hNPY) is one of the most widely expressed neurotransmitters in the human central and peripheral nervous systems. It consists of 36 highly conserved amino acid residues, and was first isolated from the porcine hypothalamus in 1982 ...
Min Yi, Hekai Li, Zhiye Wu, Jianyun Yan, Qicai Liu, Caiwen Ou, Minsheng Chen   +6 more
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RNAi-based screens uncover a potential new role for the orphan neuropeptide receptor Moody in Drosophila female germline stem cell maintenance.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Reproduction is highly sensitive to changes in physiology and the external environment. Neuropeptides are evolutionarily conserved signaling molecules that regulate multiple physiological processes.
Tianlu Ma, Shinya Matsuoka, Daniela Drummond-Barbosa   +2 more
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