Filmes de Langmuir e vesículas multilamelares de fosfolipídios e suas interações com um peptídeo oriundo da proteína p24 do HIV-1 / Langmuir films and multilamellar vesicles of phospholipids and its interactions with peptide from p24 protein from HIV-1

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The investigation of the interaction mechanisms between the viruses and the host cells brings relevant information for the identification of targets on the development of drugs to prevent the penetration and/or development of the viruses. Peptides designed from viral proteins have been developed and tested on its capacities of inhibiting the merging process of the virus with the host cell. Some of them are in clinical evaluation. Antibodies against the protein p24 of the HIV-1 have been detected in the serum of HIV-positive patients, and they are able to recognize short peptide sequences of this protein. In this work, it was analyzed the interaction between a peptide sequence corresponding to amino acids 196-224 (AAMQMLKETINEEAAEWDRVHPVHAGPIA) of the protein p24, called p24- 1, and biomimetic systems. The systems used were Langmuir films (monolayers) of dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl choline (DPPC) and dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl glycerol (DPPG) and multilamelar vesicles (MLVs) of DPPC. p24-1 is found disorganized in watery solution, but with the interaction with the MLVs of DPPC it had induced a conformation ?-helix, according to the circular dichoism spectra (CD). This characteristic was confirmed by the prediction of ?-helix followed by an unordered structure with 11 residues of p24-1. The isotherms of pressure and potential of surface of the DPPC monolayers were affected by the presence of 0,05% mo1 of p24-1, with an expansion of approximately 5%. For concentrations above 0,5% mol of p24-1 the expansion was 20%, with saturation of the concentration effect. The expansion effect was followed by a morphologic alteration of the monolayers, studied with microscopy of the Brewster angle (BAM). The incorporation of p24-1 prevents the formation of large domains of DPPC. The cooperative effect caused in the phospholipid monolayer by p24-1 suggests that this peptide has a potential in the antiviral activity, once its participates on the expansion of the host cell membrane.

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fosfolipídios brewster angle microscopy microscopia do ângulo de brewster (bam) p24 phospholipid proteína vesicle hiv vesícula peptídeo langmuir langmuir peptid hiv p24 protein

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