General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe00316

Peptide Name   Ponericin-L2 (ants, insects, animals)

Sequence  LLKELWTKIKGAGKAVLGKIKGLL

Sequence Length  24

UniProt ID  P82422 

Source  Pachycondyla goeldii (Ponerine ant)



Activity Information


Target Organism  HIV

Assay 

Activity 

  • [Ref.20086159]HIV-1 IIIB:inhibition the cytopathic effects of HIV-1 infection in CEM-SS cells(EC50=1.4 μM).

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

Cytotoxicity 

  • [Ref.20086159]CEM-SS cells:50% Cell death at 24.7 µM.

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  DRAVPe00316

Linear/Cyclic  Linear

N-terminal Modification  Free

C-terminal Modification  Free

Other Modification  None

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C123H217N31O28

Absent amino acids  CDFHMNPQRSY

Common amino acids  KL

Mass  2578.27

Pl  10.3

Basic residues  6

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  12

Net charge  5

Boman Index  1043

Hydrophobicity  39.58

Aliphatic Index  150.42

Half Life 

  •     Mammalian:5.5 hour
  •     Yeast:3 min
  •     E.coli:2 min

Extinction Coefficient cystines  5500

Absorbance 280nm  239.13

Polar residues  5



Literature Information


Literature 1

Title   Identification of novel human immunodeficiency virus type 1-inhibitory peptides based on the antimicrobial peptide database.

Pubmed ID   20086159

Reference   Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 Mar;54(3):1343-6.

Author   Wang G, Watson KM, Peterkofsky A, Buckheit RW Jr.

DOI   10.1128/AAC.01448-09