General Information


DRAVP ID  DRAVPe02226

Peptide Name   Dermaseptin-3

Sequence  ALWKNMLKGIGKLAGKAALGAVKKLVGAES

Sequence Length  30

UniProt ID  P80279 

Taxon ID  None

Source  Phyllomedusa sauvagei (Sauvage's leaf frog)

Validation   Experimentally Validated



Origin Information


Gene Name/ID  Not Available

GenBank  Not Available

Amino Acid position  Not Available

Domain Accession ID  Not Available

Nucleotide sequence ID  Not Available

Molecular Type  Not Available

Chromosomal Position  Not Available



Activity Information


Target Organism  HIV-1

Assay  Not Available

Activity  Not Available

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  Not Available



Structure Information


PDB ID  None

Predicted Structure Download 

Linear/Cyclic  Linear

N-terminal Modification  Cyclization (N termini to C termini)

C-terminal Modification  Cyclization (N termini to C termini)

Other Modification  Disulfide bonds between Cys4 and Cys20; Cys8 and Cys22; Cys13 and Cys27.

Stereochemistry  L



Physicochemical Information


Formula  C133H215N37O39S6

Absent amino acids  DFHLMQT

Common amino acids  C

Mass  3148.75

Pl  8.33

Basic residues  3

Acidic residues  1

Hydrophobic residues  9

Net charge  2

Boman Index  -9

Hydrophobicity  0.53

Aliphatic Index  78

Half Life 

  •     Mammalian:30 hour
  •     Yeast:>20 hour
  •     E.coli:>10 hour

Extinction Coefficient cystines  7365

Absorbance 280nm  253.97

Polar residues  15



Literature Information


Literature 1

Title   The Vertebrate Peptide Antibiotics Dermaseptins Have Overlapping Structural Features but Target Specific Microorganisms

Pubmed ID   7989335

Reference   J Biol Chem. 1994;269(50):31635-31641

Author   Mor A, Hani K, Nicolas P. 1994

DOI   N/A