(This is BIOchemistry) For the appetite-related signaling molecule NPY: a.) What is the specific function of that...

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(This is BIOchemistry) For the appetite-related signalingmolecule NPY:

a.) What is the specific function of that molecule?

b.) What is the mechanism of that action (how does it do what itdoes)?

c.) How is that molecule made? Describe any prepro- and pro-forms and associated cleavages or covalent bonds orphosphorylations associated with the molecule.

d.) Describe how the molecule is regulated

(This problem relates to chapters 22, Biosynthesis of aminoacids, nucleotides, and related molecules; and chapter 23, hormonalregulation and integration of mammalian metabolism, from theLehninger Biochemistry textbook).

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