General Information

    • DRAMP ID

    • DRAMP01088

    • Peptide Name

    • Alyteserin-1Ma (toads, amphibians, animals)

    • Source

    • Alytes maurus (Midwife toad)

    • Family

    • Not found

    • Gene

    • Not found

    • Sequence

    • GFKEVLKADLGSLVKGIAAHVAN

    • Sequence Length

    • 23

    • UniProt Entry

    • No entry found

    • Protein Existence

    • Not found

Activity Information

    • Biological Activity

    • Antimicrobial, Antibacterial, Anti-Gram+, Anti-Gram-, Antifungal

    • Target Organism

      • Gram-negative bacterium: Escherichia coli NCTC 10418 (MIC=214 µM) and Gram-positive bacterium: Staphylococcus aureus NCTC 10788 (MIC=214 µM).

    • 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

Structure Information

    • Linear/Cyclic

    • Linear

    • N-terminal Modification

    • Free

    • C-terminal Modification

    • α-Amidation

    • Nonterminal Modifications and Unusual Amino Acids

    • None

    • Stereochemistry

    • L

    • Structure

    • Not found

    • Structure Description

    • Not found

    • Helical Wheel Diagram

    • DRAMP01088 helical wheel diagram

    • PDB ID

    • None

    • Predicted Structure

Physicochemical Information

    • Formula

    • C106H177N29O30

    • Absent Amino Acids

    • CMPQRTWY

    • Common Amino Acids

    • A

    • Mass

    • 2337.75

    • PI

    • 8.51

    • Basic Residues

    • 4

    • Acidic Residues

    • 2

    • Hydrophobic Residues

    • 12

    • Net Charge

    • +2

    • Boman Index

    • -2.04

    • Hydrophobicity

    • 0.483

    • Aliphatic Index

    • 123.04

    • Half Life

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

    • Extinction Coefficient Cystines

    • 0

    • Absorbance 280nm

    • 0

    • Polar Residues

    • 5

DRAMP01088

DRAMP01088 chydropathy plot

Comments Information

    • Function

    • Alyteserin-1Ma has lower antimicrobial potencies (MIC>200 µM).

Literature Information

  • ·Literature 1

    • Title

    • Antimicrobial peptides and alytesin are co-secreted from the venom of the Midwife toad, Alytes maurus (Alytidae, Anura): Implications for the evolution of frog skin defensive secretions.

    • Reference

    • Toxicon. 2012 Nov;60(6):967-981.

    • Author

    • König E, Zhou M, Wang L, Chen T, Bininda-Emonds OR, Shaw C.