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| Author(s): |
Ricardo de Marco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2003-02-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Sergio Verjovski Almeida;
Wim Maurits Sylvain Degrave;
Emmanuel Dias Neto;
Hamza Fahmi Ali El Dorry;
Hernando Antonio Del Portillo Obando
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| Advisor: | Sergio Verjovski Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This work demonstrates the construction of EST minilibraries employing low stringency RT-PCR and consensus-degenerate primers. Through the study of critical parameters such as salt concentration, cycling temperature and ramp speed, composition of primers and quality of messenger RNA a standard protocol was obtained. Such protocol allowed an increase in the number of sequences per minilibrary in relation to similar protocols in the literature (Dias Neto et al., 1997 and 2000) without no loss in desirable characteristics such as preferential amplification of the central portion of messages and normalization of messages. The sequences produced allowed a significant increase in the publicly available EST sequences of S. mansoni and permitted discovery of new gene fragments expressed in adult stage of the life cycle of the parasite. In this work we also cloned an apyrase of S. mansoni whose sequence had never been described previously. The gene has about 2.7 kilobases and codes for a protein of 544 aminoacids. This protein was expressed in a heterologous system and was used for production of a polyclonal antibody. This antibody was used for detection of this protein in the tegument of the parasite. (AU) | |