Estudos estruturais com a importina-α do fungo Neurospora crassa e sequências de localização nuclear

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Bernardes, Natália Elisa [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Neurospora crassa; Peptídeos; Analise cromatografica; Proteinas - Pesquisa; Cristalografia; Peptides
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123801

The transport of macromolecules from the cytoplasm to the nucleus occurs by passage through the nuclear pore complex, present in the nuclear envelope. One of that nuclear transport pathway depends on carrier proteins called Importins. In this process, known as classical nuclear import pathway, the Importin-α protein (Impα) recognizes nuclear localization sequences (NLSs) in the protein to be transported to the formation of a complex with Importin-β (Impβ) allowing the transport of macromolecules. The aim of this work is the structural study of the protein Importin-α, from the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa (ImpαNc) in order to recognize the regions that determine the specificity of the protein and to compare their behavior in its native state and in presence of a NLS peptide. The first experiments with ImpαNc allowed an initial characterization of the protein and its behavior in solution. Experiments of analytical size exclusion chromatography comparing two samples of Impα: (1) in the presence of the NLS peptide of the protein FEN1 ( FEN1 NLS) and, (2) without NLS peptide; indicated the formation of agglomerates in the sample 2 and the conformation predominantly monomodal, in the sample 1, suggesting a greater stability of the protein in the presence of NLS peptides. For further information about the ImpαNc, crystallization experiments were carried out with the peptide complexed to the classic NLS SV40 (SV40 NLS) protein as previous experiments have suggested the increased stability of the protein in the presence of NLSs. A first crystal obtained in the condition 0.2mM dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate and 20% (w / v) polyethylene glycol 3350 were subjected to xray diffraction and showed satisfactory diffraction pattern for the elucidation of the structure of the complex at a resolution of 2.05 Å. A second crystal (ImpαNc-2) obtained under the condition of 0.2 mM bicine pH 8.5 and 20% PEG 6000, was subjected to x-ray ...