General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe02123

Peptide Name   Human beta defensin 1

Sequence  DHYNCVSSGGQCLYSACPIFTKIQGTCYRGKAKCCK

Sequence Length  36

UniProt ID  P60022 

Taxon ID  9606 

Source  Airway, hemofiltrates, urine, kidney; keratinocytes; skin; platelets; oral saliva; milk, mammary gland epithelium, colonic mucosa, H. sapiens

Validation   Experimentally validated



Origin Information


Gene Name/ID  DEFB1

GenBank  AAC51728.1

Amino Acid position  33-68

Domain Accession ID  AH006699.2 

Nucleotide sequence ID  CM000670.2 

Molecular Type  Genomic DNA

Chromosomal Position  Chromosome 8: 6,870,592-6,877,936 



Activity Information


Target Organism  IAV(H1N1)

Assay  Plaque Assay

Activity 

  • [Ref:36678471]IAV: DEFB1 overexpression reduced viral copy number in bronchial epithelial cells

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  β-defensin-1 plays a key role in regulating IAV survival through STAT3 and is a potential target for antiviral drug development.



Structure Information


PDB ID  1E4S  1IJU 

Predicted Structure Download  No predicted structure available

Linear/Cyclic  Linear

N-terminal Modification  Free

C-terminal Modification  Free

Other Modification  None

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C167H262N48O50S6

Absent amino acids  EMWOU

Common amino acids  GK

Mass  3934.57

Pl  8.87

Basic residues  5

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  24

Net charge  4

Boman Index  1.3

Hydrophobicity  -0.272

Aliphatic Index  46.11

Half Life 

  •     Mammalian:1.1 hours
  •     Yeast:3 min
  •     E.coli:>10 hours

Extinction Coefficient cystines  4470

Absorbance 280nm  1.136

Polar residues  32



Literature Information


Literature 1

Title   β-Defensin-1 Regulates Influenza Virus Infection in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells through the STAT3 Signaling Pathway

Pubmed ID   36678471

Reference   Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 12(1), 123.

Author   Othumpangat, S., & Noti, J. D. (2023).

DOI   10.3390/pathogens12010123