Patent ID: 8304392

Claim:
A composition, comprising: an active principle comprising a peptide capable of activating cytochrome C, said peptide consisting of 3 to 5 amino acid residues and a sequence according to the following formula: R 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -X 5 -R 2 wherein, X 1 is tyrosine, X 2 is leucine, X 3 is lysine, X 4 is threonine, serine, lysine, arginine, or no amino acid, X 5 is valine, alanine, tyrosine, methionine, or no amino acid, R 1 represents a primary amine function of an N-terminal amino acid, free or substituted with a protector group selected form the group consisting of: an acetyl group, a benzoyl group, a tosyl group, and a benzyloxycarbonyl group, and R 2 represents a hydroxyl function of a carboxylic acid of a C-terminal amino acid, free or substituted with a protector group selected from the group consisting of: an alkyl chain of C 1 to C 20 , an NH 2 group, NHY group, and NYY group, with Y representing an alkyl chain of C 1 to C 4 ; and a physiologically acceptable medium.