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Doctoral Thesis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/T.76.2006.tde-14112014-104525
Document
Author
Full name
Rodrigo Villares Portugal
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Carlos, 2006
Supervisor
Committee
Polikarpov, Igor (President)
Garratt, Richard Charles
Heel, Marin van
Silva, Jerson Lima da
Ugarte, Daniel Mario
Title in Portuguese
Estudos de complexos macromoleculares por crio-microscopia eletrônica e técnicas biofísicas
Keywords in Portuguese
Complexos biomoleculares
Criomicroscopia eletrônica
Abstract in Portuguese
Este trabalho apresenta o estudo e caracterização de dois complexos moleculares, hRXRálfadeltaAB e hemocianina de Acanthoscurria gomesiana, através de técnicas estruturais e biofísicas. O uso da técnica de crio-microscopia eletrônica para o estudo da hemocianina de Acanthoscurria gomesiana, resultou em um modelo estrutural com resolução de 14 angstron- pelo métodode Fourier Shell Correlation com critério de 1/2 bit. Neste limite de resolução, já é possível observar detalhes estruturais que o mostram como sendo comptível com outros modelos de hemocianinas. Com relação ao estudo de hRXRalfadeltaAB, mostrou-se, através das técnicas de cromatografia analítica de exclusão por tamanho, eletroforese de gel de poliacrilamida e SAXS, que a proteína pode se apresentar no estado dimérico em solução, mesmo na ausência do seu ligante, 9-cis-RA. Também foi estudado a associação de hRXRalfadeltaAB a elementos responsivos: DR1, DR4, F2 e PAL. Suas constantes de dissociação foram calculadas através da técnica de espectroscopia por anisotropia de fluorescência. Os resultados obtidos mostram maior afinidade por DR1 e DR2 e indicam uma origem entrópica para o processo de associação
Title in English
Studies of macromolecular complexes using electron cryo-electron microscopy and biophysical techniques
Keywords in English
Biomolecular complexes
Cryo-electron microscopy
Abstract in English
This work describes characterization of two biomolecular complexes: hRXR deltaAB and a hemocyanin from Acanthoscurria gomesiana using structural and biophysical techniques. Application of cryo-electron microscopy to studies of a hemocyanin from Acanthoscurria gomesiana resulted in its structural model to 14Å resolution, which was calculated by Fourier Shell Correlation with cut-off of 1/2 bit. At this resolution limit one can observe structural details of the complex which are compatible with other hemocyanin models. With respect to hRXR deltaAB, we showed using analytic size exclusion chromatography, SDS PAGE and SAXS, that the protein is dimeric in solution even at the absence of its ligand, 9-cis-RA. hRXR deltaAB binding to the responsive elements of DNA, DR1, DR4, F2 and PAL was investigated and the binding constants to these responsive elements have been determined using fluorescence anisotropy technique. Our results show higher affinity of the receptor to DR1 and DR4 and indicate entropic mechanism of DNA binding
 
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