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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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Expresión y purificación del factor acelerador del decaimiento de la convertasa recombinante de Trypanosoma cruzi

Mendel Reyes, Yael Andrea January 2016 (has links)
Memoria para optar al Título Profesional de Médico Veterinario / Trypanosoma cruzi, protozoo perteneciente a la familia Trypanosomatidae, es el agente causal de la enfermedad de Chagas. El principal mecanismo de transmisión de esta enfermedad es vectorial, por medio de insectos hemípteros hematófagos de la familia Reduviidae. Los tripomastigotes, formas infectantes del parásito, son capaces de resistir la acción del Sistema del Complemento (C) del hospedero, importante componente efector de la respuesta inmune innata. Se describen 3 vías de activación: clásica (VC), alterna (VA) y de las lectinas (VL), las cuales se activan en forma de cascada, por lo cual el C debe ser finamente regulado, impidiendo el daño en células del hospedero. En mamíferos, una proteínas reguladoras del C es el factor acelerador del decaimiento de la convertasa (DAF). DAF actúa inactivando las proteínas C3 y C5 convertasas de la VC y VA, acelerando su decaimiento. Se ha reportado que T. cruzi expresa factores reguladores del C similares a los del hospedero mamífero, inhibiendo su activación. Entre estos, se ha identificado la expresión de una proteína con función similar a DAF humana (T-DAF), de la cual sólo se han expresado parcialmente algunos fragmentos y se desconoce gran parte de sus funciones. En esta memoria de título se amplificó e insertó la secuencia nucleotídica codificante para la proteína de T. cruzi T-DAF en un vector de expresión de Escherichia coli. Utilizando bacterias transformadas con el plasmidio generado, se expresó y purificó en condiciones nativas la proteína recombinante T-DAF y se caracterizó su estructura tridimensional mediante un modelamiento in silico. / Trypanosoma cruzi, protozoan belonging to the Trypanosomatidae family, is the causative agent of Chagas disease. The main mechanism of transmission of this disease is through blood-sucking insects belonging to the Reduviidae family. Trypomastigotes, infectious forms of the parasite, are able to resist the action of the complement system (C), an important effector of the innate immune response in mammals. C has 3 activation pathways: classical (CP), alternative (AP) and lectin (LP) pathways. These 3 pathways are activated sequentially. For this reason, the activation of the C should be finely regulated in order to prevent damage on the host cells. In mammals, an important C regulatory proteins is the decay accelerating factor (DAF). DAF acts by inhibiting the C3 and C5 convertase proteins activation of the CP and AP, accelerating its decay. It has been reported that the parasite expresses C regulatory proteins similar to those present in the mammalian host, inhibiting C. One of these C regulatory proteins has a similar function of human DAF (T-DAF), however, it has only been expressed partially and most of their functions are unknown. In the present work, the nucleotide sequence coding for the protein of T. cruzi T-DAF was amplified and inserted into an expression vector for Escherichia coli. Using bacteria transformed with this vector, the recombinant protein T-DAF was expressed and purified under native conditions, and its three dimensional structure was characterized by an in silico modeling. / Financiamiento: Proyectos FONDECYT de Iniciación: Nð11110251 y Nð1130113.

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