Determination of the crystallographic structure of the human glucose-6-phosphate isomarase by x-ray diffraction / Determinação da estrutura cristalográfica por difração de raios-x da enzima glicose 6-fosfato isomerase humana

AUTOR(ES)

Artur Torres Cordeiro

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

This work is presented as part of the Master degree requirements of the Applied Physics program, Biomolecular Physics area. The purpose of this work is the structural study by of the human glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (PGI-hum). This work has involved mainly three areas: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Crystallography. The Molecular Biology work was intended for the cloning of the human open reading frame of PGI-hum from a fetal human brain cDNA library - Chapter 2 - and its expression in Escherichia coli - Chapter 3. The biochemistry work has involved the PGI-hum purification and the determination of its kinetic parameters of the recombinant protein. Inhibitory efficiency measurements where made with four compounds kindly provided by Dr. Laurent Salmon (Laboratoire de Chimie Bioorganique et Bioinorganique - Universite Paris-XI - France). This work is described in Chapters 3 and 4. Once defined the expression and purification protocols and confirmed its enzymatic activity for the recombinant PGI-hum, a third phase was initiated in the project: The crystallization and structure determination by X-ray diffraction. The first step in this last phase of the project was determining the conditions for crystallization of the PGI-hum - Chapter 5. Once obtained the crystals, two data set were collected. One data set was collected "in house" X-ray source and a second data set was collected at the Synchrotron beam line (Laboratório Nacional de Luz Sincrotron - LNLS - Campinas) - Chapter 6. The analysis of the quality and the comparison of the two data sets, presented in Chapter 7, indicated that second data set was the best to be used at the following steps. For the resolution of the atomic structure oh the PGL-hum the method of molecular substitution based on the structure of the rabbit homologue enzyme was employed - Chapter 8. The refinement of the PGI-hum structure at 2.1Å resolution and satisfactory R and R free factors is presented in Chapter 9 of this dissertation. A preliminary structural analysis is presented indicating an adequate geometry of the protein and describing the most important structural features of the PGI-hum compared to its homologue, the rabbit PGI.

ASSUNTO(S)

isomerase glicose-6-fosfato glucose-6-phsphate isomarase estrutura cristalográfica crystallographic structure

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