Isolamento e caracterização de um novo conjunto de serinoproteases com atividade trombina-like e de L-aminoacido oxidase do veneno de Crotalus durissus cascavella / Isolation and characterization of a new serine proteases group with thrombinin-like and L-amino acid oxidase activity from Crotalus durissus cascavella

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2006

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The use of the isolated toxins from poisons as molecular tools in the understanding of diverse physiological and pathological events has been proved by some works in literature. The serpent Crotalus durissus cascavella is found in the areas of Caatinga Northeast of Brazil, since Maranhão until North of the state of Minas Gerais, and in spite of it hasn?t been studied a lot, its bite constitutes an important problem to the public health (Martins et al, 1998). The platelet aggregation is well characterized to the isolated convulxin of the poison of Crotalus durissus cascavella and Crotalus durissus terrificus. The main objective of the project was to evaluate the activity of platelet aggregation induced by gyroxin and crotoxin that are biological and pharmacological important fractions of the total poison of Cotalus durissus cascavella. Through a combination of various methodologies in HPLC -as molecular exclusion, ionic exchange and the reverse phase- we managed to isolate the main constituent of the crotoxin (PLA2, crotapotin and the thrombin-like proteins) and the L-amino acid oxidase from the gyroxin. During the fragmentation of the total poison in column of HPLC of molecular exclusion two peaks of serine protease were found: one in the gyroxin fraction and another one in the crotoxin fraction. In the crotoxin fraction a new protease in not characterized yet and in the gyroxin fraction was found the L-amino acid activity oxidase. Through the chromatography in HPLC of ionic exchange in DEAE 5PW that allowed to the attainment of the fraction L-amino acid oxidase whose degree of molecular homogeneity was confirmed by HPLC of reverse phase. From the crotoxin fraction three main groups of proteins (PLA2, crotapotin and proteases) were isolated, and from the named proteolyitic fraction three isoforms of F201, F202 and F203, noticing that the F202 fraction is the major one. The fraction F202 showed a high quantity of aspartic acid, glutamic acid and others amino acids very important as histidine, cysteine and lysine and so more molecular homogeneity could be obtained and with molecular mass of 28kDa. This protein whose behavior Michaelis-Menten with Vmáx measured in 5,64 µM/min and one Km de 0,58 mM to this substratum showed high specificity to BapNA. In this work was investigated the ability of this protein in degrading the fibrinogen and was observed that the F202 made the cleavage into both chains ? and ?. The enzymatic activity as well as the platelet aggregation were strongly inhibited with the incubation with TLCK, a specific inhibitor to serine protease. The N-terminal of the amino acid sequence of F202 showed the high homology with other proteins thrombin-like, but it was significantly different from thrombin-like isolated fro m the gyroxin fraction. Crotalus durissus cascavella presents a fraction less studied named gyroxin that has been described as a protein thrombin-like as related by Raw et al. (1986) and Alexander et al. (1988). In this work was demonstrated that the gyroxin is a composed heterogeneous fraction of one thrombin-like and protein LAO, and this seems to be involved in some activities

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serine proteases venom agregação plaquetaria platelet aggregation serina proteinases crotalus cascavella crotalus cascavella veneno

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