peptide YY-2; peptide YY2 (PYY2)

Structure

belongs to the NPY family

Compartment

secreted

Expression

expressed mainly in the testis & prostate

Notes

• could be the product of a pseudogene
• a few point mutations in the signal peptide region of the PYY2 gene & in several other regions results in destruction of the normal initiation code, generation of an alternative initiation site & an early stop codon which reduces the predicated size of the peptide to only 33 amino acid residues

More general terms

• secreted protein

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/606637
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9NRI6.html