Caracterização parcial das enzimas envolvidas no metabolismo de frutanos em raízes tuberosas de ichthyothere terminalis (spreng.) Blake

• Autor(a) principal: Silvestre, Juliana Macêdo
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000000vjm
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6635
• topic: Caracterização parcial; 1-SST; 1-FEH; Invertase; Ichthyothere terminalis; Extrato; Raízes tuberosas; Frutanos; Partial characterization; Invertase; Ichthyothere terminalis; Extract; Tuberous roots; Fructans; MORFOLOGIA::CITOLOGIA E BIOLOGIA CELULAR

The Cerrado is a biome that occupies about 25% of Brazilian territory. The seasonality, hot-humid and cold-dry periods, is one of the most striking features of the Cerrado. Reduced rainfall reduces the availability of water in the surface layers of the soil and increases the evaporative demand of air leading to the formation of litter cooperating in cycling soil nutrients. Another important factor in the Cerrado is the occurrence of fires that influence the dispersion, bloom, sprouting and diversity of certain species of plants. The relationship between seasonality, low fertility of soils and naturally occurring fires has shaped vegetative and reproductive strategies of plants from the Cerrado biome. Ichthyothere terminalis (Spreng.) Blake Asteraceae species occurring in the Cerrado, accumulates large amounts of fructans in the underground organs as reserve carbohydrates. Fructans are fructose polymers which are synthesized by the enzymes 1-SST (sucrose: sucrose fructosyltransferase) and FFT (fructan: fructan fructosyltransferase) and depolymerized by 1-FEH (exohidrolase fructan) and invertase. This study investigated the effect of freezing in the production of the enzymes 1-SST, 1-FEH and Invertase in I. terminalis. The partial characterization of these enzymes was performed. The samples were frozen immediately after collection (EB2) or after 6 hours of transport to the laboratory (EB1). The highest amount of protein was found in EB1 (97.81 μg.mL-1) as compared to EB2 (11,90 μg.mL-1). The results showed that the extraction method was efficient, since there was a significant reduction in reducing sugars and the activity of enzymes 1-SST, 1-FEH and Invertase were detected, mainly in the EB1. Enzymes 1-SST and Invertase showed a pH optimum between pH 6 and 7, while the 1-FEH enzyme had a greater spectrum ranging from pH 5 to 7. The three enzymes had an optimum temperature in the range 40 to 50 (°C). This work represents an important step towards understanding the role of these enzymes in the fructan metabolism in I. terminalis.