General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe00550

Peptide Name   C16- N25

Sequence  RQLLSGIVQQQNNLLRAIEAQQHLL

Sequence Length  25

UniProt ID  No entry found

Source  Synthetic construct



Activity Information


Target Organism  HIV

Assay  cell-cell fusion inhibition assay

Activity 

  • [Ref.20605950]HIV-1:inhibition of peptide against cell-cell fusion between Jurkat E6-1 and HXBc2 cells(IC50=484±60 nM).

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

Cytotoxicity 

  • No cytotoxicity information or data found in the reference(s) presented in this entry

Binding Target  membrane

Mechanism  N peptide may target an exposed C-helix region of gp41 and can interact with their coiled coil formation within a gp41 dimer,which can inhibit HIV-1 entry.



Structure Information


PDB ID  None

Predicted Structure Download  DRAVPe00550

Linear/Cyclic  Linear

N-terminal Modification  C16(hexadecanoic acid)

C-terminal Modification  Free

Other Modification  None

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C125H215N41O37

Absent amino acids  CDFKMPTWY

Common amino acids  LQ

Mass  2884.33

Pl  9.61

Basic residues  3

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  11

Net charge  2

Boman Index  -4327

Hydrophobicity  -21.2

Aliphatic Index  144.4

Half Life 

  •     Mammalian:1 hour
  •     Yeast:2 min
  •     E.coli:2 min

Extinction Coefficient cystines  0

Absorbance 280nm  0

Polar residues  4



Literature Information


Literature 1

Title   Virus-cell and cell-cell fusion mediated by the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein is inhibited by short gp41 N-terminal membrane-anchored peptides lacking the critical pocket domain. 

Pubmed ID   20605950

Reference   FASEB J. 2010 Nov;24(11):4196-202. 

Author   Wexler-Cohen Y, Ashkenazi A, Viard M, Blumenthal R, Shai Y.

DOI   10.1096/fj.09-151704