Avaliação dos efeitos de um inibidor do tipo Kunitz (Amblyomin-X) em culturas celulares de carcinoma renal

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Akagi, Erica Mie [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciclo celular; Interleucina-6; Amblyomin-X; Morte celular; Carcinoma de células renais
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9103

The renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is currently a disease of great clinical interest. Its incidence is increasing, especially the incidental findings, which now represent 50% of new cases diagnosed. Because it is highly resistant to disease chemotherapy and radiotherapy, their potential to cure is the surgical treatment, while in the early stages, organo-confined. Numerous clinical trials have been proposed to treat locally advanced or metastatic tumors, but results are inconsistent in the literature with chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormone therapy or radiotherapy have shown that clinical research should progress in other directions. It was produced in our laboratory, a recombinant protein originating from a cDNA library of the salivary glands of Amblyomma cajennense called amblyomin-X, capable of inhibiting factor Xa coagulation and induce cytotoxicity in different tumor cell lines. This study evaluated the effects of Amblyomin-X in cultured murine renal cell adenocarcinoma (Renca) and human renal cell carcinoma (Caki-1) at different concentrations (0.15 to 1.5 ƒÝM) of this compound. We analyze the morphology and cell viability, cell cycle and the type of cell death induced by treatment with the protein. It also evaluated the potential of proteasome inhibition of the activity front in dealing with Amblyomin-X. Then determine that the strains Caki-1 and Renca are sensitive to Amblyomin-X, which induces changes in morphology and cell viability after 24 and 48 hours of treatment with Amblyomin-X. We also observed that death was dose-dependent and time-dependent, inducing a decrease in all phases of the cell cycle and decreased levels of IL-6. The results described herein suggest that the Amblyomin-X induces cytotoxicity in Renca cells through the mechanism of apoptosis. One of the possible targets of Amblyomin-X is the ubiquitin-proteasome system, as was also observed inhibition of catalytic activity of the proteasome chymotrypsin type.