General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe00302

Peptide Name   Neutrophil defensin 4 (Defensin, alpha 4; HNP-4, HP-4; Human, mammals, animals)

Sequence  VCSCRLVFCRRTELRVGNCLIGGVSFTYCCTRV

Sequence Length  33

UniProt ID  P12838 

Source  Homo sapiens (Human)



Activity Information


Target Organism  SARS-CoV-2

Assay 

Activity 

  • [Ref.34206990]SARS-CoV-2: showed inhibition against SARS-CoV-2.

Hemolytic Activity  No hemolysis information or data found in the reference(s) presented in this entry

Cytotoxicity  No cytotoxicity information found in the reference(s) presented

Binding Target  Not found

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



Structure Information


PDB ID  1ZMM 

Predicted Structure Download  DRAVPe00302

Linear/Cyclic  Cyclic

N-terminal Modification  Free

C-terminal Modification  Free

Other Modification  Disulfide bonds between Cys2 and Cys30,Cys4 and Cys19,Cys9 and Cys29.

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C157H261N49O43S6

Absent amino acids  ADHKMPQW

Common amino acids  C

Mass  3715.46

Pl  8.98

Basic residues  5

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  11

Net charge  4

Boman Index  -4636

Hydrophobicity  66.06

Aliphatic Index  91.21

Half Life 

  •     Mammalian:100 hour
  •     Yeast:>20 hour
  •     E.coli:>10 hour

Extinction Coefficient cystines  1865

Absorbance 280nm  58.28

Polar residues  16



Literature Information


Literature 1

Title   Human Defensins Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Blocking Viral Entry.

Pubmed ID   34206990

Reference   Viruses. 2021 Jun 26;13(7):1246.

Author   Xu C, Wang A, Marin M, Honnen W, Ramasamy S, Porter E, Subbian S, Pinter A, Melikyan GB, Lu W, Chang TL.

DOI   10.3390/v13071246