Full name: hypocretin (orexin) neuropeptide precursor

Gene type: protein coding

RefSeq status: PROVISIONAL

Summary: Predicted to enable neuropeptide hormone activity; type 1 hypocretin receptor binding activity; and type 2 hypocretin receptor binding activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including circadian sleep/wake cycle, wakefulness; multicellular organismal response to stress; and sleep. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum. Predicted to be active in perinuclear region of cytoplasm. Is expressed in brain; female organism; hypocretin-secreting neurons; male organism; and spinal cord. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in narcolepsy. Orthologous to human HCRT (hypocretin neuropeptide precursor). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]

Gene size: 4082bp

Exon count: 2