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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Characterization of cytotoxic ribonucleases: from the internalization pathway to the importance of dimeric structures

Rodríguez Maynou, Montserrat 15 December 2006 (has links)
En aquesta tesi s'ha caracteritzat la ruta d'internalització de l'onconasa, una RNasa citotòxica. Els resultats indiquen que l'onconasa entra a les cèl·lules per la via dependent de clatrina i del complex AP-2. Seguidament es dirigeix als endosomes de reciclatge i es a través d'aquesta ruta que la proteïna exerceix la citotoxicitat. Per altra banda, els resultats d'aquest treball demostren que PE5, una variant citotòxica de la ribonucleasa pancreàtica humana (HP-RNasa), interacciona amb la importina  mitjançant diferents residus que tot i que no són seqüencials, es troben propers en l'estructura tridimensional d'aquesta proteïna. PM8 és una HP-RNasa amb estructura cristal·logràfica dimèrica constituïda per intercanvi de dominis N-terminals. En aquesta tesi s'han establert les condicions per estabilitzar aquest dimer en solució i també es proposa un mecanisme per la dimerització. / In this thesis it has been characterized the internalization pathway of onconase, which is a cytotoxic ribonuclease. The results show that onconase enters cells using AP-2/clathrin mediated pathway and then is routed to the recycling endosomes. In addition, the results show that this is the route used by onconase to perform its cytotoxicity. On the other hand, the results indicate that PE5, a cytotoxic human pancreatic ribonuclease (HP-RNase), interacts with importin α using different residues that although they are scattered along the sequence, they are close in the three-dimensional structure of the protein. PM8 constitutes a crystallographic dimer by the exchange of the N-terminal domains. In this thesis it has been investigated the solution conditions that favour the dimeric form and it is proposed a dimerization process of this variant. Finally, the pattern of substrate cleavage is studied by HP-RNase.

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