General Information

    • DRAMP ID

    • DRAMP02134

    • Peptide Name

    • Antimicrobial peptide 5 (XT-5; PGLa-like peptide; Frogs, amphibians, animals)

    • Source

    • Xenopus tropicalis (Western clawed frog) (Silurana tropicalis)

    • Family

    • Not found

    • Gene

    • Not found

    • Sequence

    • GMATKAGTALGKVAKAVIGAAL

    • Sequence Length

    • 22

    • Protein Existence

    • Protein level

Activity Information

    • Biological Activity

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

    • Target Organism

      • [Ref.11738090]Gram-positive bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus (MIC>100 µM);
      • Gram-negative bacteria: Escherichia coli (MIC>100 µM);
      • Fungi: Candida albicans (MIC>100 µM)

    • Hemolytic Activity

      • [Ref.11738090]HC50>150 μM against human erythrocytes

    • Cytotoxicity

      • Not included yet

    • Binding Target

    • Cell membrane

Structure Information

    • Linear/Cyclic

    • Not included yet

    • N-terminal Modification

    • Not included yet

    • C-terminal Modification

    • Not included yet

    • Nonterminal Modifications and Unusual Amino Acids

    • Not included yet

    • Stereochemistry

    • Not included yet

    • Structure

    • Not found

    • Structure Description

    • Not found

    • Helical Wheel Diagram

    • DRAMP02134 helical wheel diagram

    • PDB ID

    • None

    • Predicted Structure

    • There is no predicted structure for DRAMP02134.

Physicochemical Information

    • Formula

    • C88H159N25O25S

    • Absent Amino Acids

    • CDEFHNPQRSWY

    • Common Amino Acids

    • A

    • Mass

    • 1999.44

    • PI

    • 10.3

    • Basic Residues

    • 3

    • Acidic Residues

    • 0

    • Hydrophobic Residues

    • 12

    • Net Charge

    • +3

    • Boman Index

    • 19.83

    • Hydrophobicity

    • 0.923

    • Aliphatic Index

    • 111.36

    • Half Life

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

    • Extinction Coefficient Cystines

    • 0

    • Absorbance 280nm

    • 0

    • Polar Residues

    • 6

DRAMP02134

DRAMP02134 chydropathy plot

Comments Information

    • Function

    • Has antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive bacterium S. aureus, Gram-negative bacterium E.coli and yeast C. albicans. Has strong hemolytic activity against human red blood cells.

    • Tissue specificity

    • Skin.

Literature Information

  • ·Literature 1

    • Title

    • Antimicrobial peptides isolated from skin secretions of the diploid frog, Xenopus tropicalis (Pipidae).

    • Reference

    • Biochim Biophys Acta. 2001 Nov 26;1550(1):81-89.

    • Author

    • Ali MF, Soto A, Knoop FC, Conlon JM.