Avaliação do uso de sais na precipitação de uma proteína empregada como agente antiviral

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Kamilla Alves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; BR; Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia Química; Engenharias; UFU
• Palavras-chave em Português: Proteínas - Análise; Precipitação (Química); Agentes antivirais; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA QUIMICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/15259; https://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.di.2015.365

Recombinant proteins expressed in cell culture have been shown to be relevant in the biopharmaceutical production focusing human heaths. Insulin, interferon and vaccine against B hepatitis are products obtained from recombinant expression system. Importantly, the precipitation is a widely used technique for separating proteins from a mixture due to its simplicity, and the process is incremented by the use of salts. This study initially dealt with the validation of the salt precipitation method by using the purified BSA and trypsin, and then, to investigate the precipitation process of recAVLOEc protein synthesized by cells of E. coli BL21 (DE3) pLysS used as expression system for the AVLO. This protein has shown antiviral activity and it found in the hemolymph of Lonoimia obliqua caterpillar. The precipitation was conducted by the use of conventional salts (ammonium sulfate and sodium sulfate) and the volatile salt ammonium carbamate. The proteins of the bacterial expression system were evaluated for their antiviral potential virus-infected cell cultures. Bacterial cells were resuspended in phosphate buffer and lysade by ultrasound. In the experimental procedure, the saturated salt solution (ammonium sulfate, sodium sulfate or ammonium carbamate) was added dropwise to the protein solution. This mixture was kept at constant temperature of 5°C for 24 h. The supernatant phase was separated from the precipitate phase by centrifugation. The protein precipitate obtained from bacterial lysate was then added to cultures of L929 and Vero cells to evaluate the cytotoxic effect; and cultures of these cells were subsequently infected with virus (EMC and measles). The results showed better efficiency of sodium sulfate on the precipitation of BSA compared to ammonium sulfate, while for trypsin, the ammonium carbamate showed more effective. Toxic effect on the culture of L929 cells was observed for the precipitate obtained by the use of ammonium sulfate and sodium sulfate. However, as expected, the precipitated protein obtained by the use of volatile ammonium carbamate salt showed a lower cytotoxic effect. Tests in L929 cultures infected with EMC, were performed; however, protein samples obtained by conventional and volatile salts used as a precipitating agent did not show antiviral action. In Vero cell cultures, the precipitated protein from cell lysate by sodium sulfate showed antiviral action for measles.