Part:BBa_K2959006

Wheat antimicrobial peptide 1b from Triticum kiharae

WAMP1b is an antimicrobial peptide from Triticum kiharae seeds. This peptide consists of 45 amino acids with a molecular weight of 4.5 kDa. Among these aminoacids, 10 cysteines are included, which form 5 nonconsecutive disulfide bonds C38-C53, C47-C59, C50-C78, C52-C66, and C71-C75. This composition makes it a highly stable molecule.^{1, 3}
Hevein-like peptides, such as WAMP1b, contain a chitin binding domain as a structural motif of 35 amino acids with specific cysteine and glycine residues. GIven this, the peptide is able to successfully bind to chitin, acting as a plant defense mechanism against fungi and certain insects.³
WAMP1b also inhibits fungalysin Fv-cmp, a protease produced by Fusarium fungi as a counterattack mechanism to plant’s defenses, that cleaves chitinases. By inhibiting this protease, WAMP1b acts as an additional defense mechanisms against fungal pathogens. It has also been observed that this peptide directly inhibits hyphal elongation.⁴
In an investigation done by Slavokhotova et al., (2014), WAMP1b was tested against various fungi, and it was proved effective against against F. verticillioides with an IC50 of 2.7 µg/ml.
As a whole, the WAMP1b peptide is composed of three sequences, the signal peptide (amino acids 1-34), the coding sequence with a particular C-terminal arginine residue (amino acids 35-79), and the propeptide (amino acids 80-116).^{1, 2}
The part is designed to code for a fusion protein of WAMP1b with a polyhistidine tag (6x His-Tag) at its N-terminus for purification by immobilized metal affinity chromatography.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

  Illegal BsaI.rc site found at 35
  

References

1. Dubovskii, P. V., Vassilevski, A. A., Slavokhotova, A. A., Odintsova, T. I., Grishin, E. V., Egorov, T. A., & Arseniev, A. S. (2011). Solution structure of a defense peptide from wheat with a 10-cysteine motif. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 411(1), 14–18. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.06.058
2. Istomina, E. A., Slavokhotova, A. A., Korostyleva, T. V., Semina, Y. V., Shcherbakova, L. A., Pukhalskij, V. A., & Odintsova, T. I. (2017). Genes encoding hevein-like antimicrobial peptides WAMPs in the species of the genus Aegilops L. Russian Journal of Genetics, 53(12), 1320–1327. doi: 10.1134/s1022795417120043
3. Odintsova, T. I., Vassilevski, A. A., Slavokhotova, A. A., Musolyamov, A. K., Finkina, E. I., Khadeeva, N. V., … Egorov, T. A. (2009). A novel antifungal hevein-type peptide fromTriticum kiharaeseeds with a unique 10-cysteine motif. FEBS Journal, 276(15), 4266–4275. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07135.x
4. Slavokhotova, A. A., Naumann, T. A., Price, N. P. J., Rogozhin, E. A., Andreev, Y. A., Vassilevski, A. A., & Odintsova, T. I. (2014). Novel mode of action of plant defense peptides - hevein-like antimicrobial peptides from wheat inhibit fungal metalloproteases. FEBS Journal, 281(20), 4754–4764. doi: 10.1111/febs.13015