Browsing by Author "Juliano, Maria Aparecida"

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    An antigenic domain within a catalytically active leishmania infantum nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase (NTPDase 1) is a target of inhibitory antibodies.
    (2013) Maia, Ana Carolina Ribeiro Gomes; Porcino, Gabriane Nascimento; Detoni, Michelle de Lima; Emídio, Nayara Braga; Marconato, Danielle Gomes; Pinto, Priscila de Faria; Fessel, Melissa Regina; Reis, Alexandre Barbosa; Juliano Neto, Luiz; Juliano, Maria Aparecida; Marques, Marcos José; Vasconcelos, Eveline Gomes
    Weidentified a shared B domainwithin nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases (NTPDases) of plants and parasites. Now, an NTPDase activity not affected by inhibitors of adenylate kinase and ATPases was detected in Leishmania infantum promastigotes. By non-denaturing gel electrophoresis of detergent-homogenized promastigote preparation, an active band hydrolyzing nucleosides di- and triphosphate was visualized and, following SDS-PAGE and silver staining was identified as a single polypeptide of 50 kDa. By Western blots, it was recognized by immune sera raised against potato apyrase (SA), r-pot B domain (SB), a recombinant polypeptide derived fromthe potato apyrase, and LbB1LJ (SC) or LbB2LJ (SD), synthetic peptides derived fromthe Leishmania NTPDase 1, and by serum samples from dogs with visceral leishmaniasis, identifying the antigenic L. infantum NTPDase 1 and, also, its conserved B domain (r83–122). By immunoprecipitation assays andWestern blots, immune sera SA and SB identified the catalytically active NTPDase 1 in promastigote preparation. In addition, the immune sera SB (44%) and SC or SD (87–99%) inhibited its activity, suggesting a direct effect on the B domain. By ELISA, 37%, 45% or 50% of 38 infected dogs were seropositive for r-pot B domain, LbB1LJ and LbB2LJ, respectively, confirming the B domain antigenicity.
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    Inhibition of cysteine proteases by a natural biflavone : behavioral evaluation of fukugetin as papain and cruzain inhibitor.
    (2012) Assis, Diego Magno; Gontijo, Vanessa Silva; Pereira, Ivan de Oliveira; Santos, Jorge Alexandre Nogueira; Camps, Ihosvany; Nagem, Tanus Jorge; Izidoro, Mario Augusto; Tersariol, Ivarne Luis dos Santos; Barros, Nilana Meza Tenório de; Doriguetto, Antônio Carlos; Santos, Marcelo Henrique dos; Juliano, Maria Aparecida
    Cruzain is the major cysteine protease of Trypanosoma cruzi, the infectious agent responsible for Chagas disease, and cruzain inhibitors display considerable antitrypanosomal activity. In the present work we elucidated crystallographic data of fukugetin, a biflavone isolated from Garcinia brasiliensis, and investigated the role of this molecule as cysteine protease inhibitor. The kinetic analyses demonstrated that fukugetin inhibited cruzain and papain by a slow reversible type inhibition with KI of 1.1 and 13.4 μM, respectively. However, cruzain inhibition was about 12 times faster than papain inhibition. Lineweaver–Burk plots demonstrated partial competitive inhibition for cruzain and hyperbolic mixed-type inhibition for papain. Furthermore, the docking results showed that the biflavone binds to ring C′ in the S2 pocket and to ring C in the S3 pocket through hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonds. Finally, fukugetin also presented inhibitory activity on proteases of the T. cruzi extract, with IC50 of 7 μM.
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    Leishmania infantum nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 1 (NTPDase 1) B-domain : antibody antiproliferative effect on the promastigotes and IgG subclass responses in canine visceral leishmaniasis.
    (2019) Maia, Ana Carolina Ribeiro Gomes; Porcino, Gabriane Nascimento; Pinto, Priscila de Faria; Mendes, Túlio Vieira; Antinarelli, Luciana Maria Ribeiro; Coimbra, Elaine Soares; Reis, Alexandre Barbosa; Juliano Neto, Luiz; Juliano, Maria Aparecida; Marques, Marcos José; Vasconcelos, Eveline Gomes
    A nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-1 (NTPDase 1) was identified on the surface, flagellum and kinetoplast from L. infantum promastigotes by immunocytochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy, using immune sera that recognized specifically the B domain of NTPDase 1 and produced against synthetic peptides (LbB1LJ and LbB2LJ) derived from this domain. The polyclonal antibodies had effective antileishmanial effect, reducing significantly in vitro promastigotes growth (21–25%), an antiproliferative effect also demonstrated by immune sera produced against recombinant r-pot B domain, and two other synthetic peptides (potB1LJ and potB2LJ). In addition, using these biomolecules in ELISA technique, IgG1 and IgG2 subclasses reactivities of either healthy dogs or infected by L. infantum and classified clinically as asymptomatic, oligosymptomatic and symptomatic were tested. Analysis of distinct IgG1 and IgG2 seropositivities patterns suggested antibody subclasses binding epitopes along B domain for protection against infection, indicating this domain as a new tool for prophylactic and immunotherapeutic investigations.