Mechanisms involved in the hemorrhage induced by snake venom metalloproteinases.

Author(s)

Cristiani Baldo

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI)
• Defense date: 2009-09-11

Examining board members

Ana Maria Moura da Silva; Thereza Christina Barja Fidalgo Coelho; Solange Maria de Toledo Serrano; Ana Marisa Chudzinski Tavassi; Telma Maria Tenorio Zorn

• Advisor: Ana Maria Moura da Silva

Abstract

In order to enlighten the mechanisms of hemorrhage induced by snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs), the effects of jararhagin, a highly hemorrhagic P-III SVMP and BnP1, a weakly hemorrhagic P-I SVMP, on extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, endothelial cells, and distribution in MEC and endothelium, was compared. In solid phase assay, only jararhagin and jararhagin-C (disintegrin-like and cysteine-rich domains) bond to collagen I and IV. In HUVECs, jararhagin and BnP1 induced apoptosis, but in skin model only jararhagin induced intense hemorrhage with degradation of the fibrillar collagen and collagen I, in hypodermis region. Jararhagin and jararhagin-C concentrated in blood vessels walls, co-localizing with collagen IV. These results suggest that the collagen binding is important to hemorrhage induced by P-III SVMPs, promoting their accumulation near to the blood vessels, making the catalysis of the basement membrane components more efficient. (AU)