Chemicals and Drugs [D] » Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12] » Proteins » Iron-Regulatory Proteins » Hepcidins
Chemicals and Drugs [D] » Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12] » Proteins » Membrane Proteins » Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins » Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides » Hepcidins
Description
Forms of hepcidin, a cationic amphipathic peptide synthesized in the liver as a prepropeptide which is first processed into prohepcidin and then into the biologically active hepcidin forms, including in human the 20-, 22-, and 25-amino acid residue peptide forms. Hepcidin acts as a homeostatic regulators of iron metabolism and also possesses antimicrobial activity. MeSH
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