Peptide name : Hymenochirin-1Pa

Source/Organism : Skin secretions, Merlin's clawed frog, Merlin's dwarf gray frog , Africa

Linear/Cyclic : Not found

Chirality : Not found

Peptide length: 29

C-terminal modification: Not found

N-terminal modification : Amidation

Non-natural peptide information: None

Assay type : Not specified

Assay time : Not found

Activity : Not found

Cell line : Not found

Cancer type : Not found

Other activity : Anti-microbial activity

Amino acid composition bar chart :

Molecular mass : 2995.7087 Dalton

Aliphatic index : 1.213

Instability index : -5.3966

Hydrophobicity (GRAVY) : 0.2621

Isoelectric point : 10.398

Charge (pH 7) : 5.7542

Aromaticity : 0

Molar extinction coefficient (cysteine, cystine): (0, 0)

Hydrophobic/hydrophilic ratio : 1.41666666

hydrophobic moment : 0.0701

Missing amino acid : C,R,W,H,Q,E,F,Y,N

Most occurring amino acid : K

Most occurring amino acid frequency : 7

Least occurring amino acid : P

Least occurring amino acid frequency : 1

Secondary structure fraction (Helix, Turn, Sheet): (0.5, 0.2, 0.3)

SMILES Notation: CC[C@H](C)[C@H](NC(=O)[C@H](C)NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H](C)NC(=O)CNC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H](C)NC(=O)CNC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(C)C)NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(C)C)NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H](CC(=O)O)NC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@@H]1CCCN1C(=O)[C@H](CO)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(C)C)NC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)[C@@H](N)CC(C)C)[C@@H](C)O)[C@@H](C)O)C(C)C)[C@@H](C)CC)[C@@H](C)CC)C(=O)N[C@@H](C)C(=O)N[C@@H](CO)C(=O)N[C@@H](CCSC)C(=O)N[C@@H](C)C(=O)O

1 : Conlon JM, et al. Characterization of the host-defense peptides from skin secretions of Merlin's clawed frog Pseudhymenochirus merlini: insights into phylogenetic relationships among the Pipidae. Comp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics. 2013; 8:352-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cbd.2013.10.002

Paper title : Characterization of the host-defense peptides from skin secretions of Merlin's clawed frog Pseudhymenochirus merlini: insights into phylogenetic relationships among the Pipidae.

Doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbd.2013.10.002

Abstract : The family Pipidae comprises the genera Hymenochirus, Pipa, Pseudhymenochirus, Silurana, and Xenopus but phylogenetic relationships within the family are unclear. Peptidomic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions from Pseudhymenochirus merlini Chabanaud, 1920, the single species within the genus Pseudhymenochirus, led to identification of 13 host-defense peptides with antimicrobial activity. Two peptides (hymenochirin-1Pa and -1Pb) show structural similarity to hymenochirin-1B from Hymenochirus boettgeri and eight peptides (hymenochirin-5Pa, -5Pb, -5Pc, -5Pd, -5Pe, -5Pf, 5Pg and -5Ph) are structurally similar to each other and to hymenochirin-5B from H. boettgeri. Two peptides differing by a single amino acid (IKIPSFFRNILKKVGKEAVSLM/I AGALKQS), termed pseudhymenochirin-1Pa and -1Pb, and pseudhymenochirin-2Pa (GIFPIFAKLLGKVIKVASSLISKGRTE) do not resemble host-defense peptides previously isolated from pipid frogs. Hymenochirin-5Pe was the most abundant peptide in the secretions and hymenochirin-1Pa the most potent against Staphylococcus aureus (MIC=2.5μM) and Escherichia coli (MIC=10μM). The data support a close phylogenetic relationship between Hymenochirus and Pseudhymenochirus that is distinct from the Xenopodinae (Xenopus+Silurana) clade with Pipa sister-group to all other extant pipids.