General Information

  • ID:  hor005879
  • Uniprot ID:  Q6RY98
  • Protein name:  Sarafotoxin-m3
  • Gene name:  NA
  • Organism:  Atractaspis microlepidota microlepidota
  • Family:  Endothelin/sarafotoxin family
  • Source:  animal
  • Expression:  Expressed by the venom gland.
  • Disease:  NA
  • Comments:  NA
  • Taxonomy:   Atractaspis microlepidota (species), Atractaspis (genus), Atractaspidinae (subfamily), Lamprophiidae (family), Colubroidea (superfamily), Serpentes (infraorder), Toxicofera , Episquamata , Unidentata , Bifurcata , Squamata (order), Lepidosauria (class), Sauria , Sauropsida , Amniota , Tetrapoda , Dipnotetrapodomorpha , Sarcopterygii (superclass), Euteleostomi , Teleostomi , Gnathostomata , Vertebrata , Craniata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Deuterostomia , Bilateria , Eumetazoa , Metazoa (kingdom), Opisthokonta , Eukaryota (superkingdom),cellular organisms
  • GO MF:  GO:0090729 toxin activity
  • GO BP:  GO:0019229 regulation of vasoconstriction; GO:0035821 modulation of process of another organism; GO:0042310 vasoconstriction; GO:0097746 blood vessel diameter maintenance
  • GO CC:  GO:0005576 extracellular region

Sequence Information

  • Sequence:  CSCNDMNDKECVYFCHLDIIWDEP
  • Length:  24(126-149)
  • Propeptide:  IWDEPVVVSARDTEEAARVPSPQKRSQPLCSCNDINDKECMYFCHQDVIWDEPVVVSVRDTEEAARVPSPQKRPQPRCSCNDMNDKECMYFCHQDVIWDEPVVVSVRDTEEAARVPSPQKRSQPRCSCNDMNDKECVYFCHLDIIWDEPVVVSVRDTEEATRVPSPQKRSQPLCSCNDINDKECMYFCHQDIIWDEPVVVSVRDTEEAARVPSPQKRSQPLCSCNDINDKECMYFCHQDIIWDEPVVVSVRDTEE
  • Signal peptide:  NA
  • Modification:  NA
  • Glycosylation:  NA
  • Mutagenesis:  NA

Activity

  • Function:  Vasoconstrictor activity. These toxins cause cardiac arrest probably as a result of coronary vasospasm. The major effects of sarafotoxin-m are a progressive decrease in heart rate (bradycardia) that turns into an arrhythmic phase that is followed by an A-
  • Mechanism:  NA
  • Cross BBB:  NA
  • Target:  NA
  • Target Unid:  NA
  • IC50: NA
  • EC50: NA
  • ED50: NA
  • kd: NA
  • Half life: NA

Structure

  • Disulfide bond:  1-15; 3-11
  • Structure ID:  AF-Q6RY98-F1(AlphaFold_DB_ID)
  • Structure: (PDB_ID-from https://www.rcsb.org/; AlphaFold_DB_ID-from https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/; hordbxxxxxx_AF2.pdb was predicted structure by AlphaFold2; hordbxxxxxx_ESM.pdb was predicted structure by ESMFold)
  •    hor005879_AF2.pdbhor005879_ESM.pdb

Physical Information

Mass: 330370 Formula: C123H178N30O41S5
Absent amino acids: AGQRT Common amino acids: CD
pI: 3.79 Basic residues: 2
Polar residues: 8 Hydrophobic residues: 6
Hydrophobicity: -33.33 Boman Index: -4395
Half-Life: 1.2 hour Half-Life Yeast: >20 hour
Half-Life E.Coli: >10 hour Aliphatic Index 60.83
Instability Index: 5326.25 Extinction Coefficient cystines: 7240
Absorbance 280nm: 314.78

Literature

  • PubMed ID:  15350691
  • Title:  Long-sarafotoxins: characterization of a new family of endothelin-like peptides.
  • PubMed ID:  21889567
  • Title:  Pharmacological and structural characterization of long-sarafotoxins, a new family of endothelin-like peptides: Role of the C-terminus extension.