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| Author(s): |
Tatiana Zapata Palacio
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2014-07-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Suely Vilela;
Augusto Cesar Cropanese Spadaro
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| Advisor: | Suely Vilela |
| Abstract | |
Resistance exhibited by snakes to their own venom, as well as resistance observed in some animals has been well recorded, and has also attributed to soluble factors present in the plasma, serum or muscle. In the case of poisonous snakes, these factors protect them from damages caused by their own venom. An inhibitor, named as BaltMPI, was isolated from the snake´s serum of Bothrops alternates. This inhibitor was isolated through several chromatographic steps including DEAE Sepharose(TM), Superdex(TM) 200, MonoQ(TM) 5/50 GL and C-18 reverse phase, with a protein yield of 0.3%. Molecular mass of 60.5 kDa for BaltMPI was determined by SDS - PAGE and 42.4 kDa by MALDI/TOF mass spectrometry. Its isoelectric point, determined by isoelectric focalization, was 5.27. According to the obtained data, it was established that BaltMPI is an SVMPIs of acid character, belonging to low molecular mass SVMPIs. The first 60 aminoacids from the N-terminal region were determined by Edman degradation. This parcial sequence showed high homology to the corresponding sequence of other SVMPIs isolated from poisonous snake´s serum. Other segments from the sequence were also determined after cleavage with tripsine and MS analyses. Consequently, alignment of the partial sequence of BaltMPI with the sequence of BJ46a, a SVMPI from Bothrops jararaca, was made finding high homology. Both, snake´s serum and BaltMPI, inhibited the hemorragic activity of Batroxase, a class P-I SVMP, and of BjussuMP-I, a class P-III SVMP. When compared to the Batroxase DHM, it was determined a DIHM of 5?g and a CE50% of 0.857?g. BaltMPI also exhibited an inhibitory activity against the proteolitic effect of Batroxase on fibrinogen, fibrin and azocasein as substrates. On the fibrinogenolitic activity of serineprotease BjSP, BaltMPI did not showed inhibitory effect, demonstrating its specificity for inhibiting SVMPs that SVMPIs possess. BaltMPI inhibits the hemorragic and proteolitic action of Batroxase by forming a complex through non covalent linkages with that SVMP. BaltMPI, as well as other reported SVMPIs, is stable in a very high range of pH (1-9), and at high temperatures, although above 60°C a decrease in its inhibition capacity to the hemorrhagic activity of Batroxase. Inhibition of the hemorrhagic activity of Batroxase, when BaltMPI potencial as serum-therapy complement was evaluated, was less than the inhibition observed when tests by previously incubating inhibitor and metalloprotease were made. However, the results obtained are encouraging, highlighting the potential that these kind of proteins, SVMPIs, have as molecular tools, optional treatments for ophidic accidents, specially bothropic accident, in which SVMPs have a fundamental role in the observed physiopathology, leading to a high associated morbidity to this kind of accidents. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/02734-9 - Biochemical and functional isolation and characterization of a metalloproteases inhibitor present in the snake serum of Bothrops alternatus |
| Grantee: | Tatiana Zapata Palacio |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |