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Previous issue date: 2009-03-23 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The seaweed Gracilaria domingensis is a common species in the coast of Rio Grande do Norte. This species lives in the intertidal zone, where colour strains (red, green and brown) co-occur during the whole year. Seaweeds that live in this region are exposed to daily changes and to the rhythm of the tide. During the low tide they are exposed to dissection, hiper-or hipo-osmotic shock, high temperatures and high irradiance. The aim of this study was to analyze whether the pigment and protein content of the colour strains of G. domingensis is affected by some environmental parameters in a temporal scale. The seaweeds were collected during 10 months in the
seashore of Rio do Fogo (RN). The total soluble proteins and the phycobiliprotein were extracted in phosphate buffer and the carotenoids were analyzed by a standardized method through HPLC-UV. The pigments analysis showed that phycoerithrin is the most abundant pigment in the three strains. This pigment was strongly correlated with nitrogen and the photosynthetically active radiation. Chlorophyll presented higher concentrations than carotenoids during the whole, but the ratio carotenoid/chlorophyll-a was modified by incident radiation. The most abundant carotenoid was ?-carotene and zeaxanthin, which had higher concentrations in the higher radiation months. The concentration increase of zeaxanthin in this period indicated a photoprotective response
of the seaweed. The three strains presented a pigment profile that indicates different radiation tolerance profile. Our results pointed that the green strain is better adapted to high irradiance levels than the red and brown strains / A macroalga Gracilaria domingensis ? comumente encontrada no litoral do Rio Grande do Norte. Esta esp?cie habita a zona intertidal, onde linhagens crom?ticas (vermelha, verde e marrom) co-ocorrem durante todo o ano. Algas que vivem nesta regi?o est?o submetidas a mudan?as diurnas e ao ritmo da mar?. Durante a mar? baixa elas ficam expostas a disseca??o, choque hiper ou hipo-osm?tico, altas temperaturas e elevada irradi?ncia. Este trabalho teve como objetivo geral o estudo do perfil prot?ico e pigmentar das variantes crom?ticas de G. domingensis e a altera??o deste perfil em fun??o dos par?metros ambientais em uma escala temporal. As algas foram coletadas mensalmente, durante 10 meses, nas parias de Rio do Fogo-RN. As prote?nas totais
sol?veis e as ficobiliprote?nas foram extra?das em tamp?o fosfato e os caroten?ides foram analisados em um m?todo padronizado por HPLC-UV. A an?lise dos pigmentos
mostrou que a ficoeritrina ? o pigmento mais abundante nas tr?s linhagens. Este pigmento esteve fortemente correlacionado com o nitrog?nio e a PAR. Os pigmentos
caroten?ides apresentaram concentra??es inferiores as da clorofila-a durante todos os meses, mas a raz?o caroten?ides/clorofila-a foi modificada com o aumento da radia??o. O caroten?ide mais abundante foi o ?-caroteno, seguido da zeaxantina, que esteve em maiores concentra??es nos meses de maior radia??o. O aumento na concentra??o da
zeaxantina nesse per?odo indicou uma resposta fotoprotetora da alga. As tr?s linhagens apresentaram um perfil pigmentar que remete a diferentes padr?es de toler?ncia a radia??o. A linhagem verde mostrou ser melhor adaptada a elevados n?veis de irradi?ncias do que a vermelha e a marrom
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufrn.br:123456789/12482 |
| Date | 23 March 2009 |
| Creators | Pereira, Dinaelza Castelo |
| Contributors | CPF:18238050430, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4786301Y8&dataRevisao=null, Colepicolo Neto, Pio, CPF:92250327815, http://lattes.cnpq.br/9346462712672265, Amado, Andr? Megali, CPF:08699632797, http://lattes.cnpq.br/4312158184208542, C?mara, Marcos Rog?rio, CPF:10654640459, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783008H5, Soriano, Eliane Marinho |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Bioecologia Aqu?tica, UFRN, BR, Bioecologia Aqu?tica |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRN, instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, instacron:UFRN |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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