Biochemical and biophysical studies of metalloproteinases/disintegrins from snake venom / Estudos bioquímicos e biofísicos de metaloproteinases/desintegrinas de venenos de serpentes

AUTOR(ES)

Ana Letícia Gori Lusa

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Metalloproteinases/disintegrin (MD) isolated from snake venom are potent inhibitors of platelet aggregation and cell adhesion, processes involved in illnesses as cancer and thrombosis. MD belong to the PIII class of the metalloproteinase/disintegrin gene family and they are constituted by three domains: the catalytic domain, metalloprotease; disintegrin-like (D) and cysteine-rich (R). Some MD proteins are rapidly processed (producing the disintegrin-like/ cysteine-rich domains), while others MD are processed slowly. In this work, we studied the autolysis process of the MD isolated from the venom of Bothrops jararaca (bothropasin) and Bothrops alternatus (alternagin). Despite high sequence identity, alternagin and bothropasin showed different autolysis processes. The processing of the alternagin produces an intermediate with molecular mass of 43kDa whereas in the processing of the bothropasin this intermediate is almost not observable. In this work we studied alternagin and bothropasin under the viewpoint of chemical stability and the unfolding process to guanidine hydrochloride (Gnd-HCl) using dichroism circular and fluorescence spectrometry. The CD spectra (220nm) of the alternagin purified from the lyophilized venom showed an intermediate structure in the unfolding process. These studies were performed on bothropasin with the goal to relate the autolysis and unfolding process. These studies revealed a high correlation between both proteins . The MD isolated from B. jararaca, jararagin and bothropasin, are isophorms purified from different chromatograph processes reported in the literature. In this work, different purification processes were used to check the major isophorm. Due to the blocked N-terminal region, these proteins will be assessed by mass spectrometry.

ASSUNTO(S)

metalloprotease metaloprotease dichroism circular fluorescência fluorescence autolysis autólise desintegrina dicroísmo circular disintegrin

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