Peptídeos cíclicos em espécies do semiárido brasileiro e uma cultivada: caracterização e atividade biológica

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Meri Emili Ferreira [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Quimica organica; Peptídeos; Dinamica molecular; Peptides
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108494

Brazil has one of the largest biodiversity in the world, however only a few plant-derived peptides have been studied from our biomes, constituting a rich source of peptides with interesting structural features and ecological functions, and so far, with potential pharmacological properties. In this study are described the investigation of orbitides and cyclotides in 24 species from plants. The orbitides refer to all N-to-C cyclized peptides from plants that do not contain disulfides and cyclotides, mini-proteins group characterized by a cyclic topology, collectively known as cyclic cystine motif (CCK) conferring them with remarkable stability. After the specific analysis for these compounds, was possible to select three species for to isolated your peptides: J. ribifolina, H. calceolaria e B. vulgaris. J. ribifolia (Pohl) Baill (syn. Adenoropium ribifolium Pohl, J. gossypifolia var. ribifolia (Pohl) Müll.), known as “pinhão-manso” and “pinhão rasteiro”, is a shrub of the Euphorbiaceae family that commonly grows in the semiarid region of northeastern Brazil. Plants of the genus Jatropha, which comprises approximately 175 species, have been established as a rich source of bioactive compounds such as alkaloids, terpens, lignans, flavonoids and cyclic peptides, so called orbitides. From the EtOH extracts of the J. ribifolia, collected in the states of Paraíba, an octapeptide cyclic, was isolated by a multi-step chromatography procedures, including HPLC. Conformational analysis of these peptides has been evaluated by using of NMR experiments and simulated annealing molecular dynamics. The synthesis of the new cyclic peptides were accomplished by solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS)-Fmoc/tBu. The antimicrobial, citotoxity and antimalarial activities are being evaluated for both the circular and linear synthetic form of the novel orbitide from J. ribifolia. Ribifolin (IC50 41.92 μM) was moderately effective against the Plasmodium...