Table 1.

Physicochemical characteristics of the peptides.

Peptide	Amino Acid Sequence	MW	Purity	pI	Charge at pH
					5.7	6.4	8.8	9.6
1338aa	ASAWQLYKTCKQAGTCPPDIIPKVEG DDDDDD	3411	95%	3.94	−4	−4	−6	−7
PADRE	(d-Ala)K(Cha)VAAWTLKA(d-Ala) DDDDDD	1973	99%	3.85	−4	−4	−4	−5

MW: Molecular weight as provided by manufacturer; (Cha): Cyclohexylalanine; (d-Ala): d-Alanine; pI: Theoretical pI predicted by online software from SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [24]; Charge at pH: Charge calculated according to the method described in Appendix Equetion A1.