Patent ID: 8354380

Claim:
An isolated peptide consisting essentially of the sequence: XXX{K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{I, A, L, V, or N}T {Q, E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 151); or XXX{S, F, K, W or Y}{I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{I, A, L, V, or N}T{Q, E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 152); or XXX{S, F, K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{L or N}W{I, A, L, V, or N}T{Q, E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 162); or XXX{S, K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{I, L, V, or N}T {Q, E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 163); or XXX{F, K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{A, L, V, or N}T {Q, E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 164); or XXX{S, F, K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{I, A, L, V, or N}T{E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 156); or XXX{F, K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{I, A, L, V, or N}T{Q, E, D, or T}{C, I, L, A, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 157); or XXX{S, K, W or Y}{L, I, V, Nle, or Nva}L{M, L, or N}W{I, A, L, V, or N}T{Q, E, D, or T}{C, V, I, L, Nva, Nle, V-NH2, or L-NH2}XXX (SEQ ID NO. 158); wherein X specifies any amino acid or no amino acid; and wherein the sequence does not comprise SLLMWITQ{C, V, I, L, A} (SEQ ID NO. 99), FVLMWITQA (SEQ ID NO. 100), FILMWITQ{L, I} (SEQ ID NO. 101), YVLMWITL (SEQ ID NO. 102) or YLLMWIT{I, L} (SEQ ID NO. 103).