| Grant number: | 12/08147-8 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Start date: | August 01, 2012 |
| End date: | December 31, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Biological Sciences - Biophysics - Molecular Biophysics |
| Principal Investigator: | João Ruggiero Neto |
| Grantee: | Dayane dos Santos Alvares |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 15/01508-3 - Interaction of the antimicrobial and antitumor peptide, Polybia-MP1, with lipid-domains, BE.EP.DR |
Abstract Studies of correlations between structural aspects of lytic peptides, mastoparanos the family, and their lytic activity in model membranes, and antimicrobial activities performed by different experimental approaches, showed different mechanism of action for the same peptide depending on the ratio peptide/lipid. These studies revealed that a number of mastoparanos extracted from native wasps has interfacial activity and provided evidence that some of these peptides induce the formation of domains or segregation in lipid vesicles, which could constitute a alternate lytic mechanism for interfacial activity. The purpose of this project is to probe the studies of interfacial activity and formation of lipid domains using the techniques of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), experiments on single vesicles (GUVs) visualized by fluorescence microscopy and phase contrast and technique monolayers lipid. The strategy is to use different systems miscible lipid mixtures which mimic membrane of gram negative bacteria and study phase transition from gel - liquid-crystal systems of these peptides in the presence of observing shifts in the thermograms and use GUVs to visualize of possible domains. In experiments with monolayers are obtained important information, such as penetration of peptides into monolayers and peptide-induced changes in the phase transition between liquid expanded - liquid condensed. | |
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