Purificação, caracterização, clonagem e seqüenciamento de β-glicosidades de Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera) / Purification, characterization, cloning and sequencing of β-glycosidases from Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera)

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2001

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In the midgut lumen of Tenebrio molitor larvae there are 4 β-glycosidases (named 1, 2, 3a and 3b), not present in the animal food. They were purified with electrophoresis, ion exchange and hydrophobic chromatographies. β-glycosidase 1 (relative molecular weight - Mr 59,000) is unstable at 30°C but is stabilized by substrates. The enzyme hydrolyses di- and oligoglucosides and has a residual activity against galactosides. It has 4 subsites for glucose binding in the active site and its physiological role is the hydrolysis of oligo- and mainly disaccharides. β-glycosidase 2 (Mr 67,000) is unstable at 30°C and hydrolyses efficiently only synthetic galactosides, has poor activity against lactose and is unable to use glucosides as substrates. This enzyme has two active sites. One of them is activated by Triton X-100 and hydrolyses MUβDgal. The other active site is not activated by the detergent and act upon NPβDgal and NPβDfuc. The physiological role ofthis enzyme may be the digestion of galactolipids. The β-glycosidases 3a and 3b (Mr 59,000) are likely isoforms, since they have similar kinetic parameters, identical HPLC peptide elution patterns after proteolytic cleavage and the same amino acid sequence of an internal peptide. A specific antibody raised against β-glycosidase 3a recognizes β-glycosidase 3b, but not β-glycosidase 1 and 2. Two clones were obtained screening a cDNA library, trom Tenebrio molitor midgut mRNA, with this antibody. The final result showed a cDNA of 1,570 pb coding for 485 amino acids in mature protein. The protein sequences showed high similarity with family 1 glycoside hydrolases and have the same amino acid sequence determined for peptides obtained after proteolytic hydrolysis of β-glycosidase 3a and 3b. The immunocytolocalization with this antibody showed that β-glycosidase 3a and 3b are secreted by exocytosis of small vesicles present in posterior midgut. These enzymes have four subsites for glucose binding and can hydrolyse di- and oligosaccharides, alkyl glucosides and toxic plant glucosides. Substrate competition experiments showed that they have only one active site responsible for the hydrolysis of all substrates. Their role may be mainly the intermediate digestion of hemicelluloses and cellulose.

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tenebrio molitor enzimas galactosidase glycosidases glicosidase digestão galactosidase digestion tenebrio molitor enzymes glucosidase glucosidase

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