| Entry |
Dermaseptin-2 |
| Uniprot code |
P84922 |
| Fasta |
P84922 |
| Peptide names |
Insulin-releasing-peptide Dermaseptin-B4 Dermaseptin-2 IRS Dermaseptin-TR1 |
| Suborder |
Neobatrachia |
| Family |
Hylidae |
| Genus |
Phyllomedusa |
| Species |
Phyllomedusa tarsius |
| Ecozone |
Neotropic |
| Distribution |
Amazon Basin in southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil, with seemingly isolated populations along the lowlands on the eastern side of the Merida Andes as well as in Barinas Province in eastern Venezuela |
| Antimicrobial & other activities |
antibacterial, insulin releasing |
| Tissue |
Skin |
| Sequence |
|
| Length |
28 |
| References: |
| 1. for MIC/HC50 |
S. Charpentier et al. / The Journal of Biological Chemistry 273 (1998) 14690-14697. Structure, synthesis, and molecular cloning of dermaseptins B, a family of skin peptide antibiotics |
| 2. for other activities |
M. Amiche et al. / Peptides 29 (2008) 2074-2082. A consistent nomenclature of antimicrobial peptides isolated from frogs of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae |