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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Anselmo Oseas da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Química |
| Defense date: | 2012-08-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Marco Aurelio Zezzi Arruda;
Ricardo Antunes Azevedo;
Márcia Andréia Mesquita da Veiga;
Lauro Tatsuo Kubota;
José Alberto Fracassi da Silva
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| Advisor: | Marco Aurelio Zezzi Arruda |
| Abstract | |
Several papers highlight a new research area called metallomic, and points out the necessity to better understand the relationship between metallic ions and proteins. This Thesis has employed the sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), which is considered an oilseed plant with significant economical importance for the production of vegetal oil, and also used in fitoremediation processes, to carry out a metallomic study focused on the evaluation of possible changes in proteins expression due to the irrigation of the plants with selenite or zinc ions. Initially, the study evaluated four different methods for the adequate extraction and separation of sunflower leaf proteins using the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DPAGE) technique and the best result was obtained using a phenol based extraction procedure. Further protein characterization in protein spots were carried out using mass spectrometry and revealed for the first time for the studied organism, the expression of 12 new proteins. An ionomic study was also developed to investigate the distribution of these elements in the different structures of the plants, looking for the correlation of obtained data with biological processes that could be occurring in the sunflowers. The study showed a correlation between selenium and sulfur levels, suggesting the incorporation of selenium into amino acids used for the synthesis of proteins. The application of laser ablation technique coupled to the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS) has also been highlighted in this research, complementing the results obtained in the ionomic study through the identification of selenium in sunflower leaves protein spots. In addition, it was evaluated an analytical procedure for the direct and simultaneous quantitative determination of selenium and sulfur in the leaves of the plants using LA-ICP-MS, searching for a correlation between both elements (AU) | |