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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.42.2007.tde-19102007-142527
Document
Author
Full name
Robert Leonardo Galvez Rojas
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2007
Supervisor
Committee
Silber, Ariel Mariano (President)
Gueiros Filho, Frederico José
Katzin, Alejandro Miguel
Title in Portuguese
Análise do transporte de glutamato e GABA em epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi.
Keywords in Portuguese
Trypanosoma cruzi
Doença chagas
GABA
Glutamato
Metabolismo
Quimioterapia
Abstract in Portuguese
A importância de aminoácidos em tripanossomatídeos vai além da síntese de aminoácidos, envolvendo processos tais como a diferenciação, osmorregulação e metabolismo energético. A disponibilidade dos aminoácidos envolvidos nestas funções depende, entre outras coisas, de seu transporte na célula. Aqui, caracterizamos o transporte de glutamato e GABA do parasita protozoário humano Trypanosoma cruzi. No transporte de glutamato dados cinéticos amostram um único sistema saturável com uma Km de 0.30 mM e uma velocidade máxima de 98.34 pmoles min-1 per 2 x 107 células para epimastigotas é 20 pmoles min-1 per 2 x 107 células para trypomastigotas, e uma Vmax de 84.45 pmoles/min/20x106 células com uma Km de 0.4 mM para o sistema de transporte de GABA. O transporte não apresentou alterações em condições de jejum de até 3 horas. Aspartato, alanina, glutamina, asparagina, metionina, oxaloacetato é alfa-cetoglutarato competiram com o substrato em concentrações dez vezes em excesso na incorporação de glutamato. Interessantemente, o transporte de glutamato aumentou fortemente na presença de GABA. O transporte de glutamato foi fortemente dependente do pH, mas não de concentrações de Na+ e K+ no meio extracelular, e o transporte de GABA foi fortemente dependente de K+. Estes dados foram consistentes com uma sensibilidade do sistema de transporte a um ionóforo (FCCP), sugerindo que o transporte é levado por um gradiente de concentração de H+ na membrana plasmática nos dois sistemas de transporte. O transporte de glutamato e GABA aumentou linearmente com a temperatura na faixa de 15 a 40o C.
Title in English
Analysis of glutamate and GABA Transport in Trypanosoma Cruzi.
Keywords in English
Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas disease
Chemotherapy
GABA
Glutamate
Metabolism
Abstract in English
The role of amino acids in trypanosomatids goes beyond protein synthesis, involving processes such as differentiation, osmoregulation and energy metabolism. The availability of the amino acids involved in those functions depends, among other things, on their transport into the cell. Here we characterize a glutamate transporter and GABA transport from the human protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. In the glutamate transport, data kinetics show a single saturable system with a Km of 0.30 mM and a maximum velocity of 98.34 pmoles min-1 per 2 x 107 cells for epimastigotes and 20 pmoles min-1 per 2 x 107 cells for trypomastigotes, and, a Vmax de 84.45 pmoles/min/20x106 cells and a Km of 0.4 mM for GABA transport system. Transport was not affected by parasite nutrient starvation for up to 3h in the two transport system. Aspartate, alanine, glutamine, asparagine, methionine, oxaloacetate and alpha-ketoglutarate competed with the substrate in 10-fold excess concentrations in the glutamate incorporation. Interestingly, the glutamate transport was strongly increased in the presence of GABA. Glutamate uptake was strongly dependent on pH, but not on Na+ or K+ concentrations in the extracellular medium, and the GABA transport was strongly dependent of K+. These data were consistent with the sensitivity of the system to the H+ ionophore carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone, suggesting that transport is driven by H+ concentration gradient across the cytoplasm membrane in two transport systems. The glutamate and GABA transport increased linearly with temperature in a range from 15 to 40 degrees C.
 
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2007-10-23
 
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