General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe00288

Peptide Name   Cycloviolacin-O13 (Cyclotide c3; Plant defensin)

Sequence  GIPCGESCVWIPCISAAIGCSCKSKVCYRN

Sequence Length  30

UniProt ID  Q5USN8 

Taxon ID  None

Source  Viola odorata (Sweet violet)

Validation   Experimentally Validated



Origin Information


Gene Name/ID  Not Available

GenBank  Not Available

Amino Acid position  Not Available

Domain Accession ID  Not Available

Nucleotide sequence ID  Not Available

Molecular Type  Not Available

Chromosomal Position  Not available



Activity Information


Target Organism  HIV

Assay 

Activity 

  • [Ref.18008336]HIV:inhibition the cytopathic effects of HIV-1 infection in cultured human T-lymphoblast (CEM-SS) cells(EC50=320 nM).

Hemolytic Activity 

  • [Ref.16872274] It has 50% hemolytic activity at 1.0 μM and 75% hemolytic activity at 1.5 μM against human type A red blood cells

Cytotoxicity 

  • [Ref.18008336]CEM-SS cells:IC50=6400 nM.

Binding Target  Not found

Mechanism  No machanism information found in the reference(s) presented in this entry



Structure Information


PDB ID  None

Predicted Structure Download  DRAVPe00288

Linear/Cyclic  Cyclic

N-terminal Modification  Cyclization (N termini to C termini)

C-terminal Modification  Cyclization (N termini to C termini)

Other Modification  Disulfide bonds between Cys4 and Cys20; Cys8 and Cys22; Cys13 and Cys27.

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C133H215N37O39S6

Absent amino acids  DFHLMQT

Common amino acids  C

Mass  3148.75

Pl  8.33

Basic residues  3

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  9

Net charge  2

Boman Index  -900

Hydrophobicity  53

Aliphatic Index  78

Half Life 

  •     Mammalian:30 hour
  •     Yeast:>20 hour
  •     E.coli:>10 hour

Extinction Coefficient cystines  7365

Absorbance 280nm  253.97

Polar residues  15



Literature Information


Literature 1

Title   Cyclotides as natural anti-HIV agents.

Pubmed ID   18008336

Reference   Biopolymers. 2008;90(1):51-60.

Author   Ireland DC, Wang CK, Wilson JA, Gustafson KR, Craik DJ.

DOI   10.1002/bip.20886

Literature 2

Title   A novel suite of cyclotides from Viola odorata: sequence variation and the implications for structure, function and stability.

Pubmed ID   16872274

Reference   Biochem J. 2006 Nov 15;400(1):1-12.

Author   Ireland DC, Colgrave ML, Craik DJ.

DOI   10.1042/BJ20060627