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La première partie du travail présenté ici se concentre sur l’optimisation d’une cathode à oxygène. Tout d’abord, l’utilisation d’une nouvelle enzyme (la BOD de Magnaporthe oryzae) permet de multiplier le courant de réduction de l’oxygène en eau jusqu’à neuf fois. Ensuite la synthèse d’un polymère rédox adapté a permis d’améliorer le coefficient de diffusion des électrons dans l’hydrogel résultant en l’augmentation de la densité de courant générée. Enfin nous sommes passés d’uneélectrode de carbone en 2 dimensions à une fibre d’or poreuse tridimensionnelle. Après modification de cette fibre avec l’hydrogel rédox à base de BOD de M. oryzaenous avons évalué sa biocompatibilité : in vitro les tests ont montré l’absence totale de cytotoxicité et seule une très faible réponse inflammatoire ; in vivo aucune infection ne s’est déclarée pendant les 8 semaines d’implantation dans les souris etla formation d’une capsule fibrotique autour de l’électrode traduit sa bonne intégration dans les tissus de l’animal. La seconde partie concerne la biopile dans son intégralité, construite à partir de la cathode optimisée et d’une anode adaptée à base de GDH. Elle permet de générer jusqu’à 240 μW.cm-2 dans du tampon Pipes/CaCl2 à 5mM de glucose. La biopile a ensuite été testée dans du sang humain total. Un maximum de 129 μW.cm-2 a été obtenu dans un échantillon avec une glycémie de 8,2 mM sous air. De plus nous avons constaté que la densité de puissance délivrée augmente proportionnellement avec la glycémie des différents échantillons de sang testés, faisant de la biopile à la fois une source d’électricité et un biocapteur à glucose ce qui n’avait jamais été démontré auparavant. / The first part of the work presented here focuses on the optimization of an oxygen cathode. First, the use of a new enzyme (BOD from Magnaporthe oryzae) permit to increase the current of reduction of oxygen into water by a factor nine. Then the synthesis of a suitable redox polymer greatly improved the diffusion coefficient of electrons in the hydrogel, resulting in an increase of the current density. Finally we switched from a two-dimensional carbon electrode to a three-dimensional porous gold fiber. After modification of the fiber with the redox hydrogel based on BOD from M. oryzae, we assessed its biocompatibility: in vitro the tests showed the total absence of cytotoxicity and only a very low inflammatory response; in vivo noinfection appeared during the 8 weeks of implantation in mice and the formation of afibrotic capsule around the device reflects its successful integration into the animal tissues.The second part concerns the full biofuel cell, elaborated from the optimized cathode and an adapted GDH-based anode. It could generate up to 240 μW.cm-2 at 5mMglucose in Pipes/CaCl2 buffer. The biofuel cell was then tested in whole human blood. A maximum of 129 μW.cm-2 was obtained in a sample with 8,2 mM glycaemiaunder air. In addition we observed that the delivered power density increased proportionally with the glycaemia of the different blood samples tested, making the biofuel cell both a power source and a glucose biosensor at the same time which had never been shown before.

Nous avons montré les performances et les limitations en électrochimie des deuxnouvelles BODs de Bacillus pumilus et de Magnaporthe oryzae. La BOD de M.oryzae commence à réduire l’O2 à un potentiel de + 0,50 V vs. Ag/AgCl et B. pumilusà + 0,44 V vs. Ag/AgCl. La BOD de M. oryzae est peu sensible à la concentration dephosphate de sodium dans l’hydrogel rédox mais est sensible au chlore, à l’urate etaux fortes température. La BOD de B. pumilus a une activité élevée en présence dechlore et à 50 °C mais est sensible à la concentration de phosphate dans l’hydrogel.Cette sensibilité est compensée par une meilleure stabilité en présence d’urate, ainsielle ne perd que 9 % d’activité après 3 heures dans le sérum de veau. La BOD de M.oryzae immobilisée sans médiateur est plus performante que B. pumilus. Sonutilisation dans des nouveaux carbones poreux contenant des nanoparticules d’or amis en évidence l’effet des conditions de séchage des enzymes et de la méthode desynthèse des nanoparticules. Les meilleures performances sont obtenues pour unséchage à 25 °C sous vide et une synthèse séquentielle des nanoparticules. Nousavons combiné ces deux BODs dans une nouvelle cathode bi-enzymatique. Au ratiooptimal de 50 %v de chaque BOD, elle opère à + 0,50 V vs. Ag/AgCl avec un courantde -0,86 ± 0,01 mA.cm-2 dans les conditions physiologiques. Elle a une forte activité àhaute température et en présence de chlore et une stabilité intermédiaire enprésence d’urate. Dans les mêmes conditions nous avons réalisé une cathode bienzymatiqueavec B. pumilus et la laccase de Podospora anserina. Elle estégalement plus performante que les cathodes mono-enzymatiques correspondantes. / Here we showed the performances and the limits in electrochemistry of the two newBODs from Bacillus pumilus and Magnaporthe oryzae. The onset potential for theoxygen reduction with the BOD from M. oryzae is + 0.50 V vs. Ag/AgCl and with B.pumilus is + 0.44 V vs. Ag/AgCl. The BOD from M. oryzae is not sensitive to theconcentration of sodium phosphate in redox hydrogel but is sensitive to chloride,urate and high temperatures. The BOD from B. pumilus has a high activity in thepresence of chloride and at 50 °C, but is sensitive to the concentration of phosphatein the hydrogel. This sensitivity is offset by an improved stability in the presence ofurate, so it loses only 9 % of activity after 3 hours in calf serum. The BOD from M.oryzae immobilized without mediator outperforms B. pumilus. Its use in new porouscarbon materials containing gold nanoparticles showed the effect of enzymes dryingconditions of the synthesis method of the nanoparticles. The best performance isobtained for a drying at 25 °C under vacuum and a sequential synthesis ofnanoparticles. We combined these two BODs in a new bi-enzymatic cathode. At theoptimal ratio of 50 %v of each BOD, it operates at + 0.50 V vs. Ag/AgCl with a currentdensity of -0.86 ± 0.01 mA.cm-2 under physiological conditions. It has a high activityat high temperatures and in the presence of chloride and an intermediate stability inthe presence of urate. Under the same conditions we conceived a bi-enzymaticcathode with B. pumilus and laccase Podospora anserina. It is also more efficientthan the single-enzymatic corresponding cathodes.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Plant Pathology / William W. Bockus / James P. Stack / Wheat blast, caused by the Triticum pathotype of Magnaporthe oryzae (MoT), is a serious disease of wheat causing yield failures and significant economic losses during epidemic years in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Although outbreaks occur only sporadically, wheat blast is considered a major disease affecting wheat production in South America and may be a threat to the wheat crop in the United States. Wheat is a major crop in the U.S. and wheat exports from the U.S. are important to food security of several countries around the World. Thus, it is important to understand the potential for MoT entry and establishment into the U.S. and to test U.S. wheat cultivars for susceptibility to MoT. The hypotheses of this research project were a) importing wheat grain from Brazil does not pose a risk for MoT establishment in the U.S., and b) resistance to MoT head infection does not exist in U.S. hard red winter wheat elite cultivars. Quantitative pathway analysis models were used to estimate the risk of MoT entry and establishment, in the coterminous U.S. and in a more targeted area within southeast North Carolina, via the importation of wheat grain from Brazil. The pathway model predicted that significant risk for MoT entry and establishment exists in some areas of the U.S. However, in approximately 60% of the coterminous U.S. winter wheat production areas the risk of MoT establishment was estimated to be zero. With respect to winter wheat growing areas in the U.S., conditions for MoT establishment and wheat blast outbreak occur only in small, restricted geographic areas. A higher resolution pathway analysis based on a ground transportation corridor in North Carolina indicated that conditions for MoT establishment exist seven out of ten years. Among U.S. cultivars tested, a continuum in severity to head blast was observed; cultivars Everest and Karl 92 were highly susceptible with more than 90% disease severity, while cultivars PostRock, Jackpot, Overley, Jagalene, Jagger, and Santa Fe showed less than 3% infection.

Endocytosis is both an ancient and a diverse feature of the eukaryotic cell. Studying how it evolved can provide insight into the nature of the last common eukaryotic ancestor, and the diversification of eukaryotes into the known extant lineages. In this thesis, I present two studies on the evolution of endocytosis. In the first part of the thesis I report results from a large-scale, phylogenetic and comparative genomic study of clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). The CME pathway has been studied to a great level of detail in yeast to mammal model organisms. Several protein families have now been identified as part of the complex set of protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions which mediate endocytosis. To investigate how such complexity evolved, first, I defined the modular nature of the CME interactome (CME-I) by literature review, and then I carried out a systematic phylogenetic and protein domain architecture analysis of the proteins involved. These data were used to construct a model of the evolution of the CME-I network, and to map the expansion of the network's complexity to the eukaryotic tree of life. In the second part of the thesis, I present results from evolutionary and functional studies of the eisosome, a protein complex which has been proposed to regulate the spatial distribution of endocytosis in S. cerevisiae. The phylogeny of eisosomes components Pil1 and Lsp1 reported here, suggests that eisosomes are likely to have originated at the base of the fungi, and then diversified significantly via multiple gene duplications. I thus studied the localisation and function of Pil1 and Lsp1 homologues in Magnaporthe oryzae to investigate the role of eisosomes in filamentous fungi. Results suggests that eisosomes are linked with septal formation and integrity in M. oryzae, and that the septal specific Pil2 paralogue was lost in budding yeasts. Together, the data presented in this thesis describe the evolutionary history of a complex biological system, but also highlights the problem of asymmetry in the understanding of endocytic diversity in the eukaryotes.

La pyriculariose, maladie causée par le champignon phytopathogène Magnaporthe oryzae, affecte gravement le riz qui constitue l'aliment de base de plus de la moitié de la population mondiale. La connaissance des mécanismes de résistance est nécessaire pour guider la sélection variétale. Au cours de ce travail, une synthèse de la littérature a permis de recenser plus de 60 gènes régulateurs du riz impliqués dans la résistance du riz à différents agents pathogènes. Nous avons complété ces données en étudiant le rôle in planta de huit de ces régulateurs. Un rôle central du facteur de transcription OsWRKY28 a pu être établi et le rôle du récepteur CEBiP a été démontré. Ce travail a aussi exploré l'éventuelle implication d'une nouvelle famille de récepteurs, les Wall-Associated Kinases (WAK) dans la résistance chez le riz. Ce travail montre l'implication des WAK dans la résistance à M. oryzae. Alors que la transcription de la plupart de ces gènes est induite au cours de l'infection, celle du gène WAK112d est réprimée. La régulation transcriptionnelle précoce observée pour certains gènes WAK est déclenchée par la chitine et sous contrôle partiel du récepteur CEBiP et d'OsWRKY28. L'étude de mutants d'insertion et de lignées de surexpression a permis de montrer le rôle positif de trois gènes WAK et le rôle négatif du gène WAK112d dans la résistance. Des approches biochimiques seront nécessaires pour comprendre le mode de fonctionnement de ces récepteurs et pour les relier aux autres systèmes de défense connus. / Rice blast disease, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most serious diseases on rice which is the staple food of more than the half of the world population. Improving our knowledge of resistance mechanisms is necessary to guide breeding programs. In this study, we reviewed over 60 rice gene regulators involved in resistance against various pathogens. We completed these data by analyzing the role of eight of these regulators. A pivotal role for the transcription factor OsWRKY28 has been established and the role of the CEBiP receptor in planta has been demonstrated. This work also shows the implication of some WAKs in rice blast resistance. Whereas the transcription of most of these genes is induced, transcription of the OsWAK112d gene is repressed upon infection. The early transcriptional regulation observed for some OsWAK genes is triggered by chitin and partially under CEBiP and OsWRKY28 regulation. Analysis of insertion mu tants and over-expressor lines revealed a positive role for three OsWAK genes and a negative role for OsWAK112d gene in rice blast resistance. Biochemical studies will be essential to understand how these receptors work and to connect them to other known defense systems.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Karinna Bannach Reis.pdf: 3955087 bytes, checksum: fbfd1023491588a9a5495cd281d72a41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-18 / Ruta graveolens has been successfully applied for many human diseases treatment and promises a well succeed alternative for plant diseases control because it has also phytoalexins in its composition. The aim of this study was to standardise the R. graveolens liquid extract and evaluate its potential for controlling rice (Oryza sativa) leaf blast (Magnaporthe oryzae). The drug has been characterized, the liquid extract obtained and the methodology for quantifying the standards components, furanocoumarins psoralen and bergapten, validated by high performance liquide chromatography. The components of essential oil obtained from standardized liquid extract were characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. In a completely randomized design, conducted in artificial hydrophobic surface with three replications and eleven treatments composed of M. oryzae conidial suspension (105 con.ml-1) mixed with R. graveolens standardized extract (0.01 to 0.10 g.mL-1), or furocoumarins psoralen (0.18 to 1.82 μg. mL-1), or bergapten (0.29 to 2.91 μg. mL-1), or water (control). It was evaluated the inhibition of conidial germination and appressorium formation and the median lethal dose (LD50). A second assay, in a completely randomized design in three replications was conducted in greenhouse conditions. It was composed of 21 days old rice plants, which were sprayed with a mixture containing M. oryzae conidial suspension (3x105 con.ml-1) and R. graveolens extract, without dilution, or furocoumarins psoralen (18.26 μg. mL-1), or bergapten (29.14 μg. mL-1), or water (control). Nine days after inoculation, leaf blast severity was scored with a diagrammatic scale, the data were statistically analyzed and means compared. The standardized plant extract inhibited M. oryzae conidial germination (LD50=0.237mg) and appressorium formation (LD50=0.121 mg) up to 100% and reduced 80.84% of leaf blast. By fluorescence microscopy it was possible to observe that standardized plant extract did not damage M. oryzae cell wall and plasma membrane, indicating another type of interaction to inhibit conidia development. Isolated standards furanocoumarins psoralen and bergapten did not inhibit conidial germination and appressorium formation and reduce leaf blast severity proportionally, suggesting that synergistic interactions between extract and essential oil components were responsible for the success of R. graveolens in suppressing rice disease, making it an alternative to compose rice blast management. / Ruta graveolens é utilizada com sucesso no tratamento de diversas patologias humanas e possui potencial para o controle alternativo de fitopatógenos, pois também apresenta fitoalexinas em sua composição. O objetivo deste estudo foi padronizar o extrato vegetal líquido de R. graveolens e avaliar seu potencial para o controle da brusone foliar. O material vegetal foi caracterizado, o extrato líquido obtido e a metodologia para a quantificação dos padrões psoraleno e bergapteno foi validada por cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência. Os componentes do óleo essencial obtidos a partir do extrato líquido padronizado foram caracterizados por cromatografia gasosa acoplada à espectrometria de massas. No ensaio conduzido em superfície hidrofóbica artificial, com três repetições e onze tratamentos, 10 μL da suspensão de conídios de Magnaporthe oryzae (105 con/mL) foram misturadas com o extrato vegetal padronizado (0,01 a 0,10 g/mL), ou as furanocumarinas psoraleno (0,18 a 1,82 μg/mL) e bergapteno (0,29 a 2,91 μg/mL), ou água (controle). Avaliou-se a inibição da germinação conidial e da formação dos apressórios determinando-se a dose letal capaz de inibir 50% dos indivíduos (DL50). No experimento conduzido em casa de vegetação e com três repetições, plantas de arroz com 21 dias após plantio foram pulverizadas com uma suspensão de conídios de M. oryzae (3x105 com/mL) misturada com extrato vegetal padronizado sem diluição, ou psoraleno (18,26 μg/mL), ou bergapteno (29,14 μg/mL), ou água (controle). Após nove dias da inoculação, avaliou-se a severidade de brusone foliar com uma escala de 10 graus, os dados foram analisados estatisticamente e as médias comparadas. O extrato vegetal padronizado inibiu a formação de tubo germinativo (DL50= 0,237 mg) e a formação de apressório (DL50= 0,121 mg) de M. oryzae em até 100%, e reduziu a severidade de brusone nas folhas em 80,84%. Através de microscopia de fluorescência, não foi observada ação do extrato padronizado em membrana plasmática e parede celular de M. oryzae, o que indica outro tipo de interação para inibir o desenvolvimento do conídio. Os padrões psoraleno e bergapteno não inibiram proporcionalmente a germinação e a formação de apressório, como também não reduziram a severidade de brusone nas folhas em sua forma isolada, o que sugere que interações sinérgicas entre os diversos componentes do extrato e do óleo essencial de R. graveolens foram responsáveis pelo sucesso do extrato padronizado em suprimir a brusone foliar, tornando-o uma alternativa para compor o manejo de brusone em arroz.