• Product name

  Somatostatin Receptor 5 peptide

• Animal free

  No

• Nature

  Synthetic

• Alternative names

  • SSTR5
  • Somatostatin receptor subtype 5
  • Somatostatin receptor type 5

  • SS 5R
  • SS-5-R
  • SS5 R
  • SS5-R
  • SS5R
  • SSR5_HUMAN
  • SST R5
  • SSTR 5
  • Sstr5

  see all

• Function

  Receptor for somatostatin 28 and to a lesser extent for somatostatin-14. The activity of this receptor is mediated by G proteins which inhibit adenylyl cyclase.

• Tissue specificity

  Adult pituitary gland, heart, small intestine, adrenal gland, cerebellum and fetal hypothalamus. No expression in fetal or adult kidney, liver, pancreas, uterus, spleen, lung, thyroid or ovary.

• Sequence similarities

  Belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 1 family.

• Cellular localization

  Cell membrane.

• Target information above from: UniProt accession P35346 The UniProt Consortium
  The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010
  Nucleic Acids Res. 38:D142-D148 (2010) .

  Information by UniProt