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Magainin 2
General Information
DCTPep ID DCTPep00177
Peptide Name Magainin 2
Sequence GIGKFLHSAKKFGKAFVGEIMNS
Sequence Length 23
PubChem CID 16166807
Origin Xenopus laevis
Type Native peptide
Classification
Cancer therapy related peptides
Activity Information
| Cell Line | Disease | Activity | Assay | Testing Time | Literature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daudi | EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma; Burkitt lymphoma | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| K562 | Blast phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive; Chronic myeloid leukemia | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| MLA | Leukemia | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| Raji | EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma; Burkitt lymphoma | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| RPMI-8402 | Childhood T acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Precursor T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| SSKT-1 | Leukemia | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| U-937 | Adult acute monocytic leukemi; Acute monoblastic/monocytic leukemia | IC50>150 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| CHP-100 | Ewing sarcoma | IC50>200 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| MCF-7 | Invasive breast carcinoma of no special type | IC50>200 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
| PC-3 | Prostate carcinoma | IC50>200 µg/ml | Trypan blue assay | 72 h | 1 |
Hemolytic Activity Not available
Normal (non-cancerous) Cytotoxicity Not available
Target Not available
Affinity Not available
Mechanism magainin 2 and synthetic analogues can rapidly and irreversibly lyse hematopoietic tumor and solid tumor
Structure Information
Predicted Structure DCTPep00177
(Please note that there is the predicted structure, predicted by AlphaFold)
Helicity Not available
Linear/Cyclic Linear
Disulfide/Other Bond Not available
N-terminal Modification Free
C-terminal Modification Amidation
Other Modification None
Chiral L
Physicochemical Information
Formula C114H180N30O29S1
Absent amino acids CDPQRTWY
Theoretical pI 10.00
Acidic residues 1
Basic residues 5
Polar residues 7
Molecular weight (Average) 2466.93
Molecular weight (Monoisotopic) 2465.33
Common amino acids GK
Net charge 4
Instability index (II) -0.1
Aliphatic index 72.17
Grand average of hydropathicity (GRAVY) 0.083
Half Life
30 hours (mammalian reticulocytes, in vitro).
>20 hours (yeast, in vivo).
>10 hours (Escherichia coli, in vivo).
Extinction coefficients
Should not be visible by UV spectrophotometry.
Amino acid distribution
Literature Information
Literature 1
Pubmed ID 1708887
Title Antibiotic magainins exert cytolytic activity against transformed cell lines through channel formation
Year 1990
Literature 2
Pubmed ID 2285300
Title Magainin analogs effective against pathogenic protozoa
Year 1990
Patent
Patent ID Not available
Patent Title Not available
Other Iinformation Not available
Other Published ID Not available
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