Combining with galanin to initiate a change in cell activity.

The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the characteristics of a mature hemocyte. Hemocytes are blood cells associated with a hemocoel (the cavity containing most of the major organs of the arthropod body) which are involved in defense and clotting of hemolymph, but not involved in transport of oxygen. As in, but not restricted to, arthropods (Arthropoda, ncbi_taxonomy_id:6656).

Combining with glucagon to initiate a change in cell activity.

The processes by which a hemocyte precursor cell acquires the characteristics of the phagocytic blood-cell type, the plasmatocyte. Plasmatocytes are a class of arthropod hemocytes important in the cellular defense response.

Combining with gonadotropin-releasing hormone to initiate a change in cell activity.

Combining with histamine to initiate a change in cell activity. Histamine is a physiologically active amine, found in plant and animal tissue and released from mast cells as part of an allergic reaction in humans.

Catalysis of the reaction: succinyl-CoA + a 3-oxo acid = succinate + a 3-oxo-acyl-CoA.

Combining with allatostatin to initiate a change in cell activity.

Combining with chemokines, small chemoattractant molecules normally used to stimulate leukocytes, to initiate a change in cell activity.

Combining with cholecystokinin, a 33-amino acid peptide secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa and also found in the central nervous system, to initiate a change in cell activity.

pyrimidine-specific mismatch base pair DNA N-glycosylase activity

Catalysis of the removal of mismatched pyrimidine bases in DNA. Enzymes with this activity recognize and remove pyrimidines present in mismatches by cleaving the N-C1' glycosidic bond between the target damaged DNA base and the deoxyribose sugar. The reaction releases a free base and leaves an apyrimidinic (AP) site.

The formation from simpler components of any of the forms of vitamin K, quinone-derived vitamins which are involved in the synthesis of blood-clotting factors in mammals.