Purificação, caracterização fisico-quimica e atividade biologica de inibidores de serinoproteinases de sementes do genero Crotalaria

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1996

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The presence of serine proteinase inhibitors was investigated in the seeds of Croetalaria paulina, Croetalaria juncea resistant and non resistant to bacterial infection This plants belongs to Leguminosae (Papilionoideae) family. The purification of inhibitor from Croetalaria paulina by ion-exchange chromatography and subsequent reverse phase chromatography using a C18 column showed the presence of a single polypeptide chain. The purifited serine proteinase inhibitor (CpTI), has a molecular mass of 20 kDa in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE 10-20%) suggesting that this protein belongs to the Kunitz-type plant inhibitors family. Staining for inhibitors trypsin afier isoeletric focusing showed the presence of inhibitors with isoeletric point about 4,5 and amino acid analysis revealed the presence of 176 amino acids residues. Crotalaria inhibitors act selectively on serine proteinases. Extracts from seeds of Croetalaria paulina, Croetalaria juncea resistant and non-resistant were tested for inhibitory activity against trypsin and chymotrypsin, from cattle, pig and humans. Within these samples, Croetalaria paulina exhibited the highest activity, inhibiting human trypsin better than bovine and porcine. The resistant Croetalaria juncea variety inhibited bovine trypsin better than the non-resistant one. The three kinds of chymotrypsin were not inhibited by these samples excepted bovine chymotripsin, that was weakly inhibited by the Croetalaria paulina extract

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crotalaria inibidores enzimaticos proteoliticos tripsina leguminosa serina proteinases

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