Análise estrutural das proteínas da seda da teia da aranha Nephila clavipes por uma abordagem proteômica

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, José Roberto Aparecido dos Santos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108679
• topic: Arachnida; Aracnideo; Aranha; Seda; Espectrometria de massa; Fosforilação; Proteômica; Proteinas - Analise; Estrutura molecular; Cromatografia liquida

The orb-web spiders became efficient producers of different types of silks. These silks are characterized by diversity in their chemical composition, structure and function, ranging from the construction of the orb-web to the cocoon. Spider web silk proteins (spidroins) have interesting relationships between their 3-D structures and mechanical properties of these protein fibers, which are secreted by specialized abdominal glands. The major ampullate silk fibers, produced by major ampullate gland, are one of the most important types of fibers spun produced by the orb-web spiders of genus Nephila, and are nanostructured composite materials predominantly composed of two structural proteins, designated spidroin-1 and -2. While the fibers produced by the flagelliform gland consist of only a single protein, the flagelliform silk protein. Despite the great interest in the spider silk mechanical properties, targeting its use in biomedical and biotechnological applications due to its properties of strength, elasticity and biocompatibility, the knowledge about the details of the silk-producing glands and the spinning process that occurs for fiber production are limited. The spider silk has been extensively studied using data from genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology. However, chemical information such as post-translational modifications (PTMs) may be lost, making difficult to explain the mechanical and physico-chemical properties of the spider silks. Thus, both the natural protein and the recombinant spidroins have been biochemically and physically characterized as they would have the same (or similar) physico-chemical properties, without any consideration about the existence of PTMs in their sequences. Therefore, in this study we used a bottom-up proteomic approach combining 2-DE with in-gel protein digestion by different proteolytic enzymes, followed by mass spectrometry analysis (NanoLC-ESI-CID/ETD-MSn) to identify the protein...