General Information
DRAVP ID DRAVPe00508
Peptide Name WQ-SW(628-655)
Sequence WEEWDKKIEEYTKKIEELIKKSQNQQSW
Sequence Length 28
UniProt ID P04578
Source Synthetic construct
Activity Information
Target Organism HIV
Assay ELISA
Activity
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 membrane
Mechanism The peptide inhibits HIV fusion by binding to the hydrophobic grooves on the N-terminal heptad repeat (NHR) trimer and blocking six-helix-bundle (6-HB) formation.
Structure Information
PDB ID None
Predicted Structure Download DRAVPe00508
Linear/Cyclic Linear
N-terminal Modification Free
C-terminal Modification Free
Other Modification None
Stereochemistry L
Physicochemical Information
Formula C165H251N41O51
Absent amino acids ACFGHMPRV
Common amino acids EK
Mass 3625.05
Pl 5.19
Basic residues 6
Acidic residues 7
Hydrophobic residues 7
Net charge -1
Boman Index -8898
Hydrophobicity -181.79
Aliphatic Index 55.71
Half Life
Extinction Coefficient cystines 17990
Absorbance 280nm 666.3
Polar residues 5
Literature Information
Literature 1
Title Creating an Artificial Tail Anchor as a Novel Strategy To Enhance the Potency of Peptide-Based HIV Fusion Inhibitors.
Pubmed ID 27795416
Reference J Virol. 2016 Dec 16;91(1):e01445-16.
Author Su S, Zhu Y, Ye S, Qi Q, Xia S, Ma Z, Yu F, Wang Q, Zhang R, Jiang S, Lu L.