TABLE 2

Effect of peptides modified from WKYMVm-NH2 on intracellular calcium increase in FPRL1-expressing RBL-2H3 cells

Intracellular calcium increase was monitored from fura-2-loaded cells as described under Materials and Methods.

Sequence EC50
nM
WKYMVm-NH2 0.60 ± 0.090
WKGMVm-NH2 21.32 ± 2.104a
WKYMGm-NH2 18.11 ± 1.308a
WKYMVG-NH2 5,945.8 ± 176.100a
WRYMVm-NH2 0.12 ± 0.010a
WEYMVm-NH2 5.23 ± 0.196a
WHYMVm-NH2 0.72 ± 0.075
WDYMVm-NH2 14.28 ± 1.225a
WKHMVm-NH2 1.94 ± 0.268a
WKEMVm-NH2 28.30 ± 1.354a
WKWMVm-NH2 0.16 ± 0.027a
WKRMVm-NH2 2.06 ± 0.256a
WKDMVm-NH2 8.73 ± 1.210a
WKFMVm-NH2 0.23 ± 0.042a
WKYMYm-NH2 0.29 ± 0.061a
WKYM(F/W)m-NH2 0.12 ± 0.015a
WKYMVE-NH2 502.87 ± 64.965a
WKYMVV-NH2 1,259.15 ± 95.750a
WKYMVR-NH2 177.52 ± 26.035a
WKYMVW-NH2 194.48 ± 19.210a
WKYMV-NH2 917.85 ± 45.610a
KYMVm-NH2 3.01 ± 0.232a
KYMV-NH2 >30,000
YMVm-NH2 17.15 ± 0.889a
MVm-NH2 >30,000
wkymvm-NH2 Inactive
  • a p < 0.05 compared with WKYMVm.