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- ItemAcesso aberto (Open Access)Estudos de síntese, conformação e atividade biológica de análogos do peptídeo antimicrobiano longipina(Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2017-03-31) Silva, Jones Montenegro da [UNIFESP]; Miranda, Antonio de [UNIFESP]; Silva Júnior, Pedro Ismael da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7158586957386749; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1357848049935882; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4701582072086750; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)Longipina (Lp) é um potente peptídeo antimicrobiano isolado e caracterizado a partir da hemolinfa do Acustisoma longipe. É rico em lisina (K) e tirosina (Y) e sua sequência primaria é: SGYLPGKYVYKYKGKVF. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é estudar a relação estrutura-atividade de novos análogos da Lp, assim como entender os seus mecanismos de ação. Os peptídeos foram sintetizados pelo método de fase sólida manual e foram purificados e caracterizados por cromatografia líquida de fase reversa e por espectrometria de massas. As atividades antimicrobianas dos peptídeos foram avaliadas através de um ensaio de inibição de crescimento líquido contra P. aeruginosa, E. coli, S. marcescens, E. c1oacae, C. albicans, C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis, C. neoformans, A. niger, C. herbarum e P. farinosus. As atividades hemolíticas e de resistência à degradação foram feitas, respectivamente, com hemácias e plasma humanos. Após uma análise dos resultados, observamos que os análogos: Ac_[Arg7,12,14,16]_Lp_NH2A,c_[Trp3,9,11,13]_Lp_NH2A;c_[Trp3,9,11,13A, rg7,12,14,16]_ Lp-NH2, Ac-[Des-Ser1, Trp3,9,11,13,Arg7,12,14,16]_Lp_NH2foram os mais ativos quando comparados com a Lp. Até a concentração de 100 IJM todos os compostos testados não apresentaram atividade hemolítica. Os análogos mais ativos foram também os mais resistentes à degradação em plasma. Concluímos que a acetilação e amidação e a substituição dos resíduos de Lys por Arg e de Tyr por Trp geraram análogos mais potentes e menos líticos. As perspectivas futuras são a realização dos estudos conformacionais por dicroísmo circular e a avaliação das atividades antitumorais dos compostos estudados.
- ItemAcesso aberto (Open Access)Síntese, estudos conformacionais e atividade biológica de novos análogos do peptídeo antimicrobiano gomesina(Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2016-08-31) Mendes, Roberta Brandao [UNIFESP]; Miranda, Antonio de [UNIFESP]; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1357848049935882; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9759007573287366; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)Gomesin (ZCRRLCYKQRCVTYCRGR-NH2) is an antimicrobial peptide isolated from hemocytes of the Brazilian spider Acanfhoscurria gomesiana. The molecule has four cysteines that form two intramolecular disulfide bridges at positions 2.15 and 6.11. Gm has a broad spectrum of action and a high toxicity against human erythrocytes. This study aimed to the synthesis of new analogues of gomesin to evaluate their structure-activity and their mechanisms of action in comparison to Gm. Thus, linear and cyclic analogs were synthesized, Ac-Gm2-15, Ac-[D-Lys8]-Gm2-15, Ac-Ifrp", D-Lys8]-Gm2-15, Ac- [Thr2,6,11,15]-Gm2_1A5c, -[ Thr2,6,11,15,D-Lys8]-Gm2_1a5nd Ac-[Thr2,6,11,15,D-Pro9]-Gm2_1b5y using the solid phase peptides synthesis in a t-Boc strategy. Then peptides were cleaved, purified and characterized. Antimicrobial activity were evaluated against C. albicans, B. megaferium, P. aeruginosa, P. expansum, C. neoformans, A. niger, Cladosporium sp and S. cerevisiae; hemolytic activity was determined against human erythrocytes; Peptides degradation resistance in human plasma and antitumoral activity against K562 cells were also evaluated. Structural analysis by Circular Dichroism spectroscopy and peptide/vesicle interaction using giant unilamellar vesicles and optical microscopy were also performed. Thermodynamical studies of the interaction peptide I lipid using large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) was done by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Our results showed that analogues, Ac-Gm2-15, Ac-[D-Lys8]-Gm2-15 and Ac-IIrp", D-Lys8]-Gm2-15, presented the best antimicrobial activity, particularly against microorganisms A. nigerand S. cerevisiae, their performance were even better than Gm. Ali showed low hemolytic activity even at 100 IJM concentration. They were quite resistant to degradation. Fro the Circular Dichroism studies, we observed that the cyclic compounds showed conformations similar than to gomesin, they also assume a p-hairpin conformation. On the other hand, linear analogues showed a prevalence of random conformation. The Iytic mechanism of action of Gm and Ac-Gm2-15 showed to be very similar, both of them caused a disruption of the membrane. Ac-[Thr2,6,11,15]-Gm2_1p5resented a pore formation mechanism. From our results, we had confirmed the crucial importance of the disulfide bridges in the Iytic mechanism of action; in fact its removal causes a decrease in the antimicrobial, hemolytic and antitumor activities. The disulfide bridges also have a great contribution to the stability and strength the action against plasma protease. Gomesin fragments should have less potency, maybe due to the lower amount of charge and also because of the removal of amino acids in the N- and C-terminal portions
- ItemSomente MetadadadosSolid-phase peptide synthesis in highly loaded conditions(Elsevier B.V., 2011-02-01) Nakaie, Clovis R. [UNIFESP]; Oliveira, Eliandre; Vicente, Eduardo F.; Jubilut, Guita N. [UNIFESP]; Souza, Sinval E. G. [UNIFESP]; Marchetto, Reinaldo; Cilli, Eduardo M.; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP); Barcelona Sci Pk; UNESP Univ Estadual PaulistaThe use of very highly substituted resins has been avoided for peptide synthesis due to the aggravation of chain-chain interactions within beads. To better evaluate this problem, a combined solvation-peptide synthesis approach was herein developed taking as models, several peptide-resins and with peptide contents values increasing up to near 85%. Influence of peptide sequence and loading to solvation characteristics of these compounds was observed. Moreover, chain-chain distance and chain concentration within the bead were also calculated in different loaded conditions. of note, a severe shrinking of beads occurred during the alpha-amine deprotonation step only when in heavily loaded resins, thus suggesting the need for the modification of the solvent system at this step. Finally, the yields of different syntheses in low and heavily loaded conditions were comparable, thus indicating the feasibility of applying this latter prohibitive chemical synthesis protocol. We thought these results might be basically credited to the possibility, without the need of increasing molar excess of reactants, of carrying out the coupling reaction in higher concentration of reactants - near three to seven folds - favored by the use of smaller amount of resin. Additionally, the alteration in the solvent system at the alpha-amine deprotonation step might be also improving the peptide synthesis when in heavily loaded experimental protocol. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.