Comparison
While Thymosin Alpha-1 is clinically used in some countries as an immunomodulator for chronic hepatitis B/C and as an adjuvant in cancer therapy, enhancing cell-mediated immunity41487, Thymosin Beta-4 promotes wound healing, angiogenesis, and tissue regeneration in preclinical models via effects on cytoskeleton dynamics, cell migration, and anti-apoptotic pathways25579.
While Thymosin Alpha-1 works as a 28-amino-acid thymic peptide fragment of prothymosin alpha that activates dendritic cells and T cells primarily via TLR9/MyD88/NF-κB signaling, enhancing Th1 responses and NK-cell cytotoxicity414, Thymosin Beta-4 is an endogenous 43-amino-acid actin-sequestering peptide that maintains a pool of G-actin monomers and regulates actin polymerization, thereby influencing cell migration, proliferation, and differentiation25579.
Thymosin Alpha-1 is 28 amino acids long, whereas Thymosin Beta-4 is longer as it has a length of 43 amino acids. Thymosin Alpha-1 is made up of a sequence of Serine, Aspartic acid, Alanine, Alanine, Valine, Aspartic acid, Threonine, Serine, Serine, Glutamic acid, Isoleucine, Threonine, Threonine, Lysine, Aspartic acid, Leucine, Lysine, Glutamic acid, Lysine, Lysine, Glutamic acid, Valine, Valine, Glutamic acid, Glutamic acid, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Asparagine. Thymosin Beta-4 is made up of a sequence of Serine, Aspartic acid, Lysine, Proline, Aspartic acid, Methionine, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Isoleucine, Glutamic acid, Lysine, Phenylalanine, Aspartic acid, Lysine, Serine, Lysine, Lysine, Proline, Aspartic acid, Methionine, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Glutamic acid, Lysine, Phenylalanine, Aspartic acid, Lysine, Lysine, Glutamic acid, Lysine, Lysine, Glutamic acid, Glutamic acid, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Asparagine, Glutamic acid, Glutamic acid, Lysine, Glutamic acid, Serine.
Thymosin Alpha-1
PTMA
Thymosin Beta-4
TMSB4X