Proglucagon

Proglucagon is a protein that is cleaved from preproglucagon. Preproglucagon in humans is encoded by the GCG gene.

GCG
Available structures
PDBHuman UniProt search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesGCG, GLP1, glucagon, GRPP, GLP-1, GLP2
External IDsOMIM: 138030 HomoloGene: 136497 GeneCards: GCG
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

2641

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Ensembl

ENSG00000115263

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UniProt

P01275

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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_002054

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_002045

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Location (UCSC)Chr 2: 162.14 – 162.15 Mbn/a
PubMed searchn/a
Wikidata
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Proglucagon is a precursor of glucagon, and several other components. It is generated in the alpha cells of the pancreas and in the intestinal L cells in the distal ileum and colon. It is also cleaved into the following components in different organs:

  • Signal peptide (1-20) removed from preproglucagon to form proglucagon
  • Glicentin (21–89)
  • Glicentin-related pancreatic polypeptide (GRPP, 21-50)
  • Oxyntomodulin (OXY or OXM, 53–89)
  • Glucagon (53–81)
  • Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1, 92–128) first seven residues further cleaved
  • Glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2, 146–178)

Proglucagon itself is a protein with three repeats of slightly different secretin family hormones to be cleaved to form mature hormones.

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