"Purificação, caracterização e estudos estruturais de duas lectinas ligantes de quitina das sementes do gênero Artocarpus" / Purification, Characterization and Structural Studies of Two Novel Chitin-Binding Lectins from the Seeds of Artocarpus Genus

AUTOR(ES)

Melissa Barbano Trindade

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

This work deals with the preparative-scale purification by chromatographic techniques, the partial primary sequence determination, the spectroscopic characterization by circular dichroism, fluorescence, FT-IR and the investigation of biological activities of two novel chitin-binding lectins from the saline extracts of the seeds of Artocarpus integrifolia, jackfruit, and Artocarpus incisa, breadfruit. Our results revealed that the chitin-binding lectins from jackfruit and breadfruit, jackin and frutackin respectively, are homologous to each other, consiting of monomers of 14 kDa, made up of 3 subunits, linked by S-S bridges. They have 62% of identity between each other; they are rich in cysteines, serines and basic amino acids and they are no homologous to any other known protein, probably constituting a new group of lectins in the chitin-binding lectin superfamily. The CD spectra of jackin and frutackin are similar: both present a beta profile spectra, presenting a maximum about 230 nm and a minimum around 214 nm, this later one, distorted by unordered structures. The fluorescence spectra of jackin and frutackin presented maxima above 340 nm, suggesting that the N-terminals of the 2 up 3 chains of jackin and frutackin (where the tryptophans are) are exposed. Regarding the pH and temperature exposure, monitored by CD and fluorescence, it was observed that the structure of jackin is vulnerable to acid pH and thermally stable. When considered the biological activities, jackin and frutackin presented growth inhibition activity towards Saccharomyces cerevisiae; jackin also promoted the adhesion of the erythroleukemic cell line K562, presented growth inhibition activity towards Fusarium moniliforme at 2,25mg/mL and hemaggluting activity towards rabbit and human red cells from the system ABO, that was not inhibited even by N-acetilglucosamine, suggesting itspreference by oligomers of N-acetilglicosamine or chitin.

ASSUNTO(S)

artocarpus dicroísmo circular atividade antifúngica artocarpus antifungal activity lectinas ligantes de quitina chitin-binding lectins homologia

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