General Information
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DRAMP ID
- DRAMP03294
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Peptide Name
- Defensin-B3 (DefB3; OaDefB3; mammals, animals)
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Source
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Duckbill platypus)
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Family
- Belongs to the beta-defensin family
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Gene
- Not found
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Sequence
- GISRVRICREKGGHCDADCHLEERHLGGCRAAYLTFCC
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Sequence Length
- 38
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UniProt Entry
- P0C8A7
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Protein Existence
- Transcript level
Activity Information
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Biological Activity
- Antimicrobial
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Target Organism
- No MICs found in DRAMP database
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Hemolytic Activity
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- No hemolysis information or data found in the reference(s) presented in this entry
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Cytotoxicity
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- Not included yet
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Binding Target
- Not found
Structure Information
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Linear/Cyclic
- Not included yet
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N-terminal Modification
- Not included yet
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C-terminal Modification
- Not included yet
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Nonterminal Modifications and Unusual Amino Acids
- Not included yet
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Stereochemistry
- Not included yet
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Structure
- Not found
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Structure Description
- Not found
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Helical Wheel Diagram
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PDB ID
- None
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Predicted Structure
- There is no predicted structure for DRAMP03294.
Physicochemical Information
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Formula
- C174H280N60O52S6
Absent Amino Acids
- MNPQW
Common Amino Acids
- C
Mass
- 4236.87
PI
- 7.81
Basic Residues
- 9
Acidic Residues
- 5
Hydrophobic Residues
- 10
Net Charge
- +4
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Boman Index
- -88.68
Hydrophobicity
- -0.276
Aliphatic Index
- 66.84
Half Life
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- Mammalian:30 hour
- Yeast:>20 hour
- E.coli:>10 hour
Extinction Coefficient Cystines
- 1865
Absorbance 280nm
- 50.41
Polar Residues
- 14
DRAMP03294
Comments Information
Function
- Has antimicrobial activity (By similarity).
Tissue specificity
- Lowly expressed in spleen, and expressed at lower levels in kidney, lung and testis.
PTM
- Contains three disulfide bonds (By similarity).
Literature Information
- ·Literature 1
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Title
- Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genes.
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Pubmed ID
- 18463304
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Reference
- Genome Res. 2008 Jun;18(6):986-994.
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Author
- Whittington CM, Papenfuss AT, Bansal P, Torres AM, Wong ES, Deakin JE, Graves T, Alsop A, Schatzkamer K, Kremitzki C, Ponting CP, Temple-Smith P, Warren WC, Kuchel PW, Belov K.
- ·Literature 2
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Title
- Expression patterns of platypus defensin and related venom genes across a range of tissue types reveal the possibility of broader functions for OvDLPs than previously suspected.
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Pubmed ID
- 18662710
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Reference
- Toxicon. 2008 Sep 15;52(4):559-565.
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Author
- Whittington CM, Papenfuss AT, Kuchel PW, Belov K.