sh-Oligopeptide-186 SP Amide is a single chain human peptide produced synthetically to be identical to a portion of the protein, Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor, and contains 11 amino acids consisting of alanine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline and serine, in which the C-terminus is an amide. The starting gene is a synthesized copy of the human gene that codes for Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor, and is used as such. It contains a maximum of 288 amino acids which may contain disulfide bonds and/or glycosylation. The protein consists of the proper sequence of the 20 standard amino acids.