Abstract
Insulin-Like Peptide 5 (INSL5) belongs to the insulin/relaxin family of structurally related peptides. Human INSL5 has 71% identity to mouse INSL5 and 40% identity to human relaxin-2 throughout the A-chain and B-chain sequences. The 66 amino acid C-chain of INSL5 has no sequence similarity to the C-chain of other relaxin/insulin family members. A coding sequence for INSL5 is found in the dog and rat genome, however these sequences code for a non-functional pseudogene.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | xPharm |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Comprehensive Pharmacology Reference |
| Editors | S J Enna, David B Bylund |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080552323 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |