General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe00297

Peptide Name   Kalata-B8 (Plant defensin)

Sequence  GSVLNCGETCLLGTCYTTGCTCNKYRVCTKD

Sequence Length  31

UniProt ID  P85175 

Taxon ID  None

Source  Oldenlandia affinis

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=2500 nM).

Hemolytic Activity 

  • [Ref.20564013] It produced 7% hemolysis at the 62μM.

Cytotoxicity 

  • [Ref.18008336]CEM-SS cells:IC50>11000 nM.

Binding Target  Not found

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



Structure Information


PDB ID  2B38 

Predicted Structure Download  DRAVPe00297

Linear/Cyclic  Cyclic

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

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

Other Modification  Disulfide bonds between Cys6 and Cys20; Cys10 and Cys22; Cys15 and Cys28.

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C134H220N38O47S6

Absent amino acids  AFHIMPQW

Common amino acids  CT

Mass  3307.81

Pl  7.76

Basic residues  3

Acidic residues  2

Hydrophobic residues  5

Net charge  1

Boman Index  -3965

Hydrophobicity  -2.26

Aliphatic Index  56.45

Half Life 

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

Extinction Coefficient cystines  3355

Absorbance 280nm  111.83

Polar residues  21



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   Structural and biochemical characteristics of the cyclotide kalata B5 from Oldenlandia affinis.

Pubmed ID   20564013

Reference   Biopolymers. 2010;94(5):647-58.

Author   Plan MR, Rosengren KJ, Sando L, Daly NL, Craik DJ.

DOI   10.1002/bip.21409