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Table 1 Peptide parameters of the newly isolated Hc-AFP defensin peptides

From: Four plant defensins from an indigenous South African Brassicaceae species display divergent activities against two test pathogens despite high sequence similarity in the encoding genes

Defensin

Signal peptide (amino acids)

Mature peptide (amino acids)

MW (Da)

pI

Charge at pH7

Hc-AFP1

1-29

30-80

5479.32

8.50

3.2

Hc-AFP2

1-29

30-81

5718.31

8.73

4.2

Hc-AFP3

1-29

30-80

5524.33

8.20

2.2

Hc-AFP4

1-29

30-81

5731.61

8.94

5.2