General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe00293

Peptide Name   Cycloviolacin-Y4 (Plants)

Sequence  GVPCGESCVFIPCITGVIGCSCSSNVCYLN

Sequence Length  30

UniProt ID  No entry found

Source  Viola yedoensis (Chinese herb)



Activity Information


Target Organism  HIV

Assay 

Activity 

  • [Ref.18618891]Effects: H. contortus( IC50=2.01μM, IC99=6.73μM) and T. colubriformis(IC50=2.27μM, IC99=5.26μM).
  • [Ref.18008336]HIV:inhibition the cytopathic effects of HIV-1 infection in cultured human T-lymphoblast (CEM-SS) cells(EC50=120 nM).

Hemolytic Activity 

  • [Ref:18081258] HD50=9.3 μM against human type A red blood cells.

Cytotoxicity 

  • [Ref.18008336]CEM-SS cells:IC50=1720 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  DRAVPe00293

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  C127H202N32O41S6

Absent amino acids  ADHKMQRW

Common amino acids  C

Mass  3025.55

Pl  4

Basic residues  0

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  9

Net charge  -1

Boman Index  1386

Hydrophobicity  104.67

Aliphatic Index  90.67

Half Life 

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

Extinction Coefficient cystines  1865

Absorbance 280nm  64.31

Polar residues  18



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   Anti-HIV cyclotides from the Chinese medicinal herb Viola yedoensis.

Pubmed ID   18081258

Reference   J Nat Prod. 2008 Jan;71(1):47-52.

Author   Wang CK, Colgrave ML, Gustafson KR, Ireland DC, Goransson U, Craik DJ.

DOI   10.1021/np070393g