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Item Análise proteômica da fase leveduriforme do fungo patogênico Paracoccidioides sp durante a privação de nitrogênio(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014-03-13) Cruz-Leite, Vanessa Rafaela Milhomem; Borges, Clayton Luiz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8867708267053410; Borges, Clayton Luiz; Bailão, Alexandre Melo; Brito, Wesley de Almeida; Casaletti, Luciana; Pereira, MaristelaThe fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides sp are etiologic agents of disease paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), are termodimórficos and have the ability to move the saprobiótica form to yeast form at a temperature around 37 ° C. The uptake is essential for the growth and adaptation of the fungus in host tissue, where nitrogen-dependent pathways have close relationship with pathogenicity. Pathogenic organisms possess a regulatory system called Nitrogen Catabolic Represion which is induced when nitrogen availability is limiting in surround causing the expression of genes necessary for nutrient uptake when preferred sources such as glutamine and ammonia are scarce. This regulatory process comprises a complex system in the infectious process. This study aims to identify proteins regulated by nitrogen depletion, where the pathogenic fungus Pb01-like was analyzed as a proteomic response. Pb01-like was grown in minimal medium control MMcM (+N) and treated MMcM (-N) for 6 hours at 37 ° C, cytoplasmic proteins were extracted and subjected to tryptic digestion and quantification. The proteomic profile revealed an expression of 135 proteins, 40 proteins induced or identified the treaty, 58 repressed or identified control and 44 proteins were expressed constitutively. In silico analyzes showed that the gene is regulated by formamidase areA transcription factor that responds conditions of nitrogen depletion in Aspergillus nidulans and the surrounding medium the enzymatic activity for the gene of formamidase Pb01-like induced depletion of nitrogen during. The amino acid sequence of the regulatory gene areA important in the metabolism of nitrogen was aligned between Pb01-like, Pb18, Aspergillus nidulans and Neurospora crasssa where this alignment showed high identity and homology of conserved zinc finger domains and DUF 1752. Metabolic pathways such as fermentation, gluconeogenesis, protein synthesis, nitrogen metabolism were induced for the depletion of nitrogen, showing a possible modulation of the metabolism of the fungus in order to be able to adapt to environments with nitrogen limitation.Item Análise do secretoma de duas espécies filogenéticas de Paracoccidioides(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015-03-10) Oliveira, Amanda Rodrigues de; Borges, Clayton Luiz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8867708267053410; Borges, Clayton Luiz; Weber, Simone Schneider; Lima, Patrícia de Sousa; Baeza, Lilian Cristiane; Casaletti, LucianaParacoccidioides is a termodimorphic fungus that causes paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), the most frequent systemic mycosis that affects mainly the rural population in Latin America. The fungus grows as yeast when grown at 35-37° C and as mycelium at temperatures below 28° C. The establishment and severity of the disease depends on factors inherent to the fungus and the host. The diversity presented among isolates of the same genus has been explored between the microorganisms and attempt to clarify differences possibly related to virulence existing between isolates that cause the same disease. The secretion of proteins in a cell is a highly dynamic mechanism and is directly involved in the first pathogen contact with the host cells, enabling their survival, multiplication and dissemination. In order to try to elucidate this diversity the proteomic profile of secretome of two isolates of Paracoccidioides, PbEpm83 and Pb01, that in our experimental conditions of infection showed different behaviors was characterized. The use of Ultra Performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (UPLC-MSE) allowed the identification of 92 proteins / isoforms among the strains. Of the 92 proteins identified, 36 were preferentially secreted in PbEpm83 and 35 preferentially secreted in Pb01. Among the identified we can highlight proteins related to various biological processes: adhesion to the ECM, proteins related to thermal and oxidative stress, cell rescue, defense and virulence, proteins with immunogenic capacity, proteins related to defense against antifungal, heat shock proteins, among others. Our analysis showed that most of the proteins identified using non-conventional secretory pathways. Among the identified proteins there are already related proteins as virulence factors, such as, ATP synthase, mitochondrial Peroxiredoxin PRX 1, fructose bisphosphate aldolase, Didpeptidil peptidase, Thioredoxin, TCTP, Hsp70 and Hsp88. Our results highlight the importance of secreted proteins in the establishment of infection and that these species, within the same genus, maintain differences in the levels of protein expression that may reflect their behavior in the success of the infection.Item Análise de moléculas envolvidas no metabolismo de nitrogênio no fungo patogênico humano Paracoccidioides brasiliensis(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017-02-22) Silva, Lana OHara Souza; Paccez, Juliano Domiraci; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2350706025601982; Borges, Clayton Luiz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8867708267053410; Borges, Clayton Luiz; Oliveira, Rosely Maria Zancopé; Reis, Angela Adamski da SilvaThe Paracoccidioides genus is composed of thermodimorphic fungus that causes paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), an endemic human systemic mycosis in Latin America. These organisms grow as mycelium in temperatures below 28 °C and as yeast form in temperatures above 37 °C. Nitrogen is an important element in this microorganism’s nutrition that participates in the synthesis of proteins, nucleic acids and others biomolecules. In this regard, nitrogen uptake and metabolism are essential to growth and fungal establishment. When nitrogen levels and sources such as glutamine and ammonia concentration are limited, pathogenic fungus use a regulation system called Nitrogen Catabolic Repression that induces the expression of genes encoding permeases and enzymes required for the catabolism of secondary nitrogen sources, such as formamidase, gamma-glutamiltranspeptidase and urease. Gamma-glutamiltranspeptidase is an enzyme that catalyzes the first reaction of glutationa degradation and it has been the target of several studies about nitrogen starvation in various fungi. It has been observed that the expression of the gene encoding this enzyme was induced in limiting conditions of nitrogen and was repressed when the availability of nitrogen was high. Urease is an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of urea in ammonia and carbonic acid. This enzyme is already known as a virulence factor in fungi such as Cryptococcus. neoformans, and also has been the target of studies about nitrogen starvation. In this study we expressed gamma-GT and urease proteins from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, isolate Pb18, in Escherichia coli. The gene coding for Ggt and Ure were cloned in pET32a expression vector, and used for E. coli pLysS transformation. The recombinant proteins produced were shown to be catalytically active. Together, data obtained in this work could add knowledge about the role of gamma-GT and urease and can be used as a foundation for complementary experiments regarding nitrogen metabolism regulation, as well as in Paracoccidioides spp pathogenesis.