Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T14:42:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosmary Aires Cunha.pdf: 811607 bytes, checksum: 37675c904b954048b34612362bb4c3d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-07-23 / The objective of the present work was to evaluate the effect of lecithin, starch and silicon may have in the efficiency of foliar feeding, that is: Can these products really contribute to the absorption and translocation of minor nutrients? Can the source of nutrient, sulfate and chelate, influence the result? The experiment was carried out under greenhouse condition at Univerdidade Federal de Goiás (Jataí unit)/GO, set in a completely randomized design, with six replications, four factors in study and two levels each, making a 2x2x2x2 factorial arrangement , totalizing 16 treatments. Moreover, it was added a control as an additional treatment, totalizing then, 102 experimental units. Each experimental unit was constituted by a vase of collard green plant. The treatments consisted of 2 minor nutrient sources (sulfate and chalate) and of absence and presence of three substance added to the spray solution: lecithin dewaxed (L), a commercial silicon surfactant (S), and stanch (A). After analyses of the leaves, 30 days after de pulverization, it was clear that the amount of zinc and manganese was influenced by the adjutants and kind of fertilizer. The use of lecithin increased the absorption of zinc sulfate whereas the use of silicon increased only the absorption of zinc chalate. Both chelate and sulfate increased the absorption of manganese. The starch drove to a reducing absorption of zinc chelate. / O presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar os efeitos da lecitina, amido e silicone sobre a eficiência da adubação foliar, utilizando-se sais e quelatos como fonte de micronutrientes. Para isso foi realizado um experimento onde se avaliou os efeitos da adição de diferentes adjuvantes em relação à absorção e translocação de zinco e manganês na forma de sais e quelatos. O delineamento utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com seis repetições, com quatro fatores em estudo e dois níveis cada, perfazendo um fatorial 2x2x2x2, totalizando dezesseis tratamentos. Além dos tratamentos, foi adicionado testemunha como tratamento adicional, perfazendo, assim, um total de 102 parcelas. Cada parcela foi constituída por um vaso contendo uma planta de couve manteiga. Os tratamentos constaram de combinações entre 2 fontes (sulfato e quelato) e de presença ou ausência de três substâncias na calda de pulverização: lecitina de soja desengordurada (L), um siliconado comercial (S) e gel de amido de mandioca (A). A determinação dos efeitos constituiu-se na análise do teor de zinco e manganês nas folhas novas 30 dias após a pulverização. A adição de lecitina aumentou a absorção do zinco aplicado na forma de sulfato ao passo que o produto siliconado aumentou a absorção apenas do zinco quelatizado. Tanto a lecitina quanto o produto siliconado, quando adicionados a calda de pulverização, aumentaram o teor de manganês. O gel de amido não aumentou a absorção de nenhum micronutriente, levando até mesmo a uma redução do da absorção do quelato de zinco.

The biological membrane surrounding the living cell provides a sealed barrier that tightly regulates the interactions with the outside environment. A large number of integral membrane proteins mediate these interactions and are involved in a wide variety of biological processes. An increasing number of studies have led to the conclusion that lipids provide more than a hydrophobic solvent for membrane proteins, and that interactions between lipids and proteins are required to allow protein function. ABC transporters are one of the most important family of membrane proteins. However, the importance of their lipidic environment is largely unknown. Only a few studies showed that their activity was dependent on the lipidic composition of the surrounding bilayer. The bacterial ABC transporter HorA was used as a model to probe the influence of the lipidic environment on that class of membrane proteins.<p><p> HorA is a multidrug transporter expressed in Lactobacillus brevis, a Gram-positive beer spoilage bacterium. It turned out that phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) was indispensable to maintain both the activity and the structural integrity of HorA.<p> Surprisingly, replacement of PE by the chemically related PC (phosphatidylcholine) did not led to the suppression of HorA activity, but to an unexpected phenotype. Whereas the cytoplasmic domains of HorA were still able to hydrolyze ATP, the membrane parts of the transporter were unable to use that energy to mediate substrate transport. Using several biophysical methods particularly adapted to the study of reconstituted systems, we showed that the structure of HorA is strongly altered by this lipid replacement. In particular, the structural organization of the transmembrane domains of the protein is strongly affected.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences agronomiques et ingénierie biologique / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This diploma thesis is focused on preparation and characterization of supported lipid bilayers as simplified models of cell membranes. The bilayers were prepared from source system of lecithin liposomes in phosphate buffer using the vesicle fusion method on a cover glass sufrace hydrophilized by plasma. Three fluorescent probes – Nile red, Oregon Green DHPE and DiO – were utilized to characterize diffusion within the bilayer using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. For this purpose Z-scan FCS, which is a method developed specially for planar samples, was used. After the process of preparation and characterization of supported lipid bilayer was optimalized, interaction between this artificial membrane and solution of hyaluronic acid in phosphate buffer was studied. It was found out, that addition of this biopolymer causes slowing the diffusion of the fluorescent probe within the bilayer.

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