Product Description
Three letter code: H-Gly-Ile-Gly-Lys-Phe-Leu-His-Ser-Ala-Gly-Lys-Phe-Gly-Lys-Ala-Phe-Val-Gly-Glu-Ile-Met-Lys-Ser-OH
One letter code: GIGKFLHSAGKFGKAFVGEIMKS
Counterion: hydrochloride Molecular Mass: 2409.9 CAS # 108433-99-4
Summary: antimicrobial agent isolated from the skin of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis.
Reference: Zasloff, M. (1987), Magainins, a class of antimicrobial peptides from Xenopus skin: isolation, characterization of two active forms, and partial cDNA sequence of a precursor, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 84, 5449-5453.
Image: Gesell, J. J. et al (1997), 1 Two-dimensional 1H NMR experiments show that the 23-residue magainin antibiotic peptide is an alpha-helix in dodecylphosphocholine micelles, sodium dodecylsulfate micelles, and trifluoroethanol/water solution, J. Biomol. NMR, 9, 127-135.
