Comparison
While Dulaglutide is a once-weekly GLP-1RA for type 2 diabetes that lowers HbA1c and body weight by enhancing glucose-dependent insulin secretion and reducing appetite6668, MOTS-c improves insulin sensitivity, enhances glycolysis, reduces oxidative stress, and shows protective effects in models of metabolic syndrome, aging, and ischemia-reperfusion injury8135146.
While Dulaglutide works as a recombinant fusion protein consisting of two disulfide-linked GLP-1(7–37) analogs each covalently fused via a linker to an IgG4 Fc fragment, yielding a large, long-acting GLP-1 receptor agonist protected from DPP-4 degradation66, MOTS-c is a 16-amino-acid mitochondrial-derived peptide that translocates to the nucleus under metabolic stress and regulates glucose and lipid metabolism largely via activation of AMPK and modulation of mTOR and folate-cycle–linked pathways854140146.
Dulaglutide is amino acids long, whereas MOTS-c is longer as it has a length of 16 amino acids. Dulaglutide is made up of a sequence of sequence data not available in the current dataset. MOTS-c is made up of a sequence of Methionine, Arginine, Tryptophan, Glutamine, Glutamic acid, Methionine, Glycine, Tyrosine, Isoleucine, Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, Proline, Arginine, Lysine, Leucine, Arginine.
Dulaglutide
GCG
MOTS-c
MT-RNR1