MOTS-c

A mitochondrial-derived peptide that appears in metabolic and mitochondrial research literature.

MOTS-c is a short peptide encoded within the mitochondrial genome and characterized in the literature as a mitochondrial-derived peptide. As a research material it is handled as a defined peptide and has been the subject of research examining mitochondrial signaling and cellular metabolic pathways. This page is background about the molecule and is not medical guidance or intended for human use.

Classification and structure

MOTS-c is classified as a peptide, structurally a short single chain encoded by a mitochondrial reading frame rather than the nuclear genome. It is studied as a signaling peptide in cellular research systems. It is supplied strictly as a research material.

Areas of research

In the published literature, MOTS-c appears most often in the following research areas.

• Mitochondrial signaling — Investigated in models examining mitochondrial-derived peptide signaling.
• Metabolic pathway research — Appears in the literature on cellular metabolic and energy-homeostasis models.
• Cellular-stress models — Studied in research examining cellular metabolic-stress pathways.

As always in this library, describing a compound as “studied in” an area is a statement about where scientific attention has gone — not a claim that it produces any result in humans or animals.

Handling and verification

Lyophilized MOTS-c is generally kept cold and dry until reconstitution in the laboratory setting. Every in-stock lot ships with a third-party certificate of analysis that can be verified by its lot number.