Dinâmica populacional de minicírculos de cinetoplastos em Leishmania infantum chagasi
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2012-07-25
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Gushi, Letícia Tsieme [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Leishmaniose Visceral Americana (LVA) é uma doença tropical negligenciada em expansão no Brasil, ocorrendo em áreas onde antes não havia registro. Seu agente etiológico e a Leishmania chagasi um protozoário pertencente à classe Kinetoplastida caracterizada por uma organela denominada cinetoplasto a qual possui um DNA organizado em uma rede contendo maxicírculos, responsáveis pelas funções respiratórias e minicírculos, envolvidos na pordução de RNAs-guia, os quais possuem um papel importante na edição dos RNAs dos maxicírculos. Os minicírculos são divididos em uma região convervada de aproximadamente 120 p.b. e uma região variável de aproximadamente 600 p.b. O foco desse estudo está na análise das seqüências da região variável a fim de entender sua distribuição nos diferentes estágios de vida da L. chagasi. As amostras foram coletadas de cães e pacientes sintomáticos por aspiração dos linfonodos e, em alguns casos, foram obtidas culturas primárias. A extração do DNA foi realizada com o kit comercial Nucleo Spin Blood Kit (Macherey - Nagel) seguindo as instruções do protocolo. O kDNA foi amplificado por PCR, utilizando o par de oligonucleotídeos LIN R4 - forward (5’-GGT TGG TGT AAA ATA GGG-3) e LIN 19 - reverse (5’-GAA CGC CCC TAC CCG-3’), produzindo um fragmento de aproximadamente 720 p.b. Os produtos da PCR foram clonados no vetor pTZ57R/T de acordo com o protocolo do InsTAclone PCR cloning kit. As seqüências (aproximadamente 182) foram individualmente comparadas com as depositadas no GenBank, alinhadas com o software Clustal X2 e tiveram uma árvore filogenética construída utilizando o software MEGA 4.0 adotando o algoritmo UPGMA e escolhendo um bootstrap com 1000 replicatas. A distribuição entre os diferentes hospedeiros foi homogênea. A princípio, um lato polimorfismo é observado, mas...
American Visceral Leishmaniasis (AVL) is a neglected tropical disease in expansion in Brazil currently occurring in areas where there has never been reports. Its etiologic agent is Leishmania chagasi, a protozoan belonging to the order Kinetoplastida characterized by an organelle named kinetoplast wich has a DNA organized in a network containing maxicircles, responsible for respiratory functions and minicircles, involved in the production of guide RNAs, which play a role in the RNA editing of maxicircles. The minicircles are divided into an approximately 120 b.p. conserved region and an approximately 600 b.p. variable region. The focus of this study is on the sequence analysis of the minicircles variable region in order to understand its distribution on different life stages of L. chagasi. Samples were collected from dogs and symptomatic patients by lymphonod aspiration and, in some cases, primary cultures were obtained. DNA extraction was carried out with the commercial kit Nucleo Spin Blood Kit (Macherey - Nagel) following its protocol. kDNA was amplified by PCR, using a pair of oligonucleotides LIN R4 - forward (5’-GGT TGG TGT AAA ATA GGG-3) and LIN 19 - reverse (5’-GAA CGC CCC TAC CCG-3’), producing a fragment of 720 b.p. PCR products were cloned in pTZ57R/T vector according to the InsTAclone PCR cloning kit protocol. Sequences (182) were individually compared with the ones deposited at the GENBANK, aligned with Clustal X2 software and had a phylogenetic tree constructed utilizing MEGA 4.0 software adopting UPGMA algorithm and choosing bootstrap with 1000 replicates. Sequences distribution among different hosts was homogeneous. At first, high polymorphism is observed but, when analyzed in more detail, i.e. by branch, sequences proved to be conserved and minimal SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) was found... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
American Visceral Leishmaniasis (AVL) is a neglected tropical disease in expansion in Brazil currently occurring in areas where there has never been reports. Its etiologic agent is Leishmania chagasi, a protozoan belonging to the order Kinetoplastida characterized by an organelle named kinetoplast wich has a DNA organized in a network containing maxicircles, responsible for respiratory functions and minicircles, involved in the production of guide RNAs, which play a role in the RNA editing of maxicircles. The minicircles are divided into an approximately 120 b.p. conserved region and an approximately 600 b.p. variable region. The focus of this study is on the sequence analysis of the minicircles variable region in order to understand its distribution on different life stages of L. chagasi. Samples were collected from dogs and symptomatic patients by lymphonod aspiration and, in some cases, primary cultures were obtained. DNA extraction was carried out with the commercial kit Nucleo Spin Blood Kit (Macherey - Nagel) following its protocol. kDNA was amplified by PCR, using a pair of oligonucleotides LIN R4 - forward (5’-GGT TGG TGT AAA ATA GGG-3) and LIN 19 - reverse (5’-GAA CGC CCC TAC CCG-3’), producing a fragment of 720 b.p. PCR products were cloned in pTZ57R/T vector according to the InsTAclone PCR cloning kit protocol. Sequences (182) were individually compared with the ones deposited at the GENBANK, aligned with Clustal X2 software and had a phylogenetic tree constructed utilizing MEGA 4.0 software adopting UPGMA algorithm and choosing bootstrap with 1000 replicates. Sequences distribution among different hosts was homogeneous. At first, high polymorphism is observed but, when analyzed in more detail, i.e. by branch, sequences proved to be conserved and minimal SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) was found... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Parasitologia, Mitocondria, Leishmania, Tropical diseases
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GUSHI, Letícia Tsieme. Dinâmica populacional de minicírculos de cinetoplastos em Leishmania infantum chagasi. 2012. 106 f. Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Instituto de Biociências do Botucatu, 2012.