Análise proteômica comparativa do processo de diferenciação celular do fungo patogênico Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

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Ano de defesa: 2014
Autor(a) principal: Vaz, Alessandro Fernandes lattes
Orientador(a): Soares, Célia Maria de Almeida
Banca de defesa: Soares, Célia Maria de Almeida, Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes, Lima, Patrícia de Sousa
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Genetica e Biologia Molecular
Departamento: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas - ICB (RG)
País: Brasil
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Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4537
Resumo: Paracoccidioides spp. is the etiological agent of paracoccidioidomycosis, the most important endemic systemic mycosis in Latin America. Paracoccidioides spp. is a dimorphic fungus; mycelia is found in soil at temperatures below 25ºC, while in host tissues, and temperature around 36-37ºC the fungus takes the yeast form. Infection begins with the inhalation of conidia or mycelia propagules that upon reaching the host lungs differentiate into yeast, establishing disease. The morphological transition from mycelia-to-yeast is involved in the virulence of this pathogen and this aspect of morphogenesis deserves special attention due to its relevance to the fungal virulence. In the present study, we employed proteomic strategies using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to evaluate the differential proteomic profile of cells ongoing transition from mycelia-to-yeast after 22 h of temperature shift from 22ºC to 36ºC (P. brasiliensis Pb-18 phylogenetic lineage S1). Nine hundred and ninety-one proteins were identified (350 in the mycelia, 288 in the transition and 353 in the yeast), and 251 were differentially regulated. The analysis of the functional categories to which those proteins belong provided us a comprehension on the metabolic reprogramming that occurs during the cell differentiation process, providing putative virulence factors.