| Entry |
Brevinin-1Sb |
| Peptide names |
Brevinin-1Sb Brevinin-1BLa |
| Suborder |
Neobatrachia |
| Family |
Ranidae |
| Genus |
Lithobates |
| Species |
Lithobates sphenocephalus |
| Ecozone |
Nearctic |
| Distribution |
Southern New York south along the Atlantic coastal plain to southern Florida, west to eastern Texas, and north to eastern Kansas, southern Illinois, and southern Ohio (excluding most of the Appalachian Mountains); introduced on Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. |
| Antimicrobial & other activities |
antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer |
| Tissue |
Skin |
| Sequence |
|
| Length |
24 |
| References: |
| 1. for MIC/HC50 |
J.M. Conlon et al. / Journal of Peptide Research 54 (1999) 522-527. Peptides with antimicrobial activity of the brevinin-1 family isolated from skin secretions of the southern leopard frog, Rana sphenocephala |
| 2. for other activities |
J.M. Conlon et al. / Toxicon 53 (2009) 699-705. Peptides with potent cytolytic activity from the skin secretions of the North American leopard frogs, Lithobates blairi and Lithobates yavapaiensis |