Ação da histatina 5, uma proteína antimicrobiana, no desenvolvimento de biofilmes de Candida Albicans

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Moffa, Eduardo Buozi [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Candida albicans; Saliva; Espectrometria de massa
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127820

Candida albicans, present in oralbiofilms, is primarily responsible for denture stomatitis. Usually the infection is asymptomatic, but when signs and symptoms are present it can cause mucosal bleeding, swelling, burning or other painful sensations. Topical drugs such as miconazole and nystatin have been used, however, the diluent effect of saliva, the tongue and oral muscles movements reduce the dose of these agents to subtherapeutic concentrations, besides the high rate of recurrence of the infection. Thus, it is important to search for new antifungals, which are efficient and non-toxic. The oral cavity is constantly in presence of saliva, a biological fluid with potent antifungal and bacterial activity. With the recent progress in analysis of saliva proteome, the number of identified salivary proteins has increased considerably. The histatin-5 generated proteolytically from Hst-3, during maturation of the granules in the salivary glands of the parotid has been extensively studied due to their greater fungicidal action his remarkable action against C. albicans. Methods based on measurements of metabolic activity and cell viability as reduction assay salt XTT (2,3-bis hydroxide (2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl) -5 - [(phenylamino) carbonyl] - 2H-tetrazolium) and counting of colony forming units (CFU) have been used for the exploration of new drug potential on inhibitory development of biofilm. The associations between the metabolic activities experiments with counting CFU are labor-intensive processes that need to be done separately. This study aimed to evaluate initially i) the effects of XTT salt and other compounds used to make the XTT reduction assay on cell viability of biofilms of C. albicans and S. mutans; ii) evaluate the potential of histatin 5 in protecting the human oral epithelium against C. albicans and iii) identify the heterotypic complexes formed between the histatin 5, a natural...(Complete abstrat electronic access below)