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Immunochemical and proteomic technologies as tools for unravelling toxins involved in envenoming by accidental contact with Lonomia obliqua caterpillars
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RICCI-SILVA, Maria Esther et al. Immunochemical and proteomic technologies as tools for unravelling toxins involved in envenoming by accidental contact with Lonomia obliqua caterpillars. Toxicon, v. 51, p.1017-1028, 2008.
0041-0101
10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.01.013
1879-3150
Autor
Ricci-Silva, Maria Esther
Valente, Richard Hemmi
León, Ileana Rodriguez
Tambourgi, Denise Vilarinho
Ramos, Oscar Henrique Pereira
Perales, Jonas
Chudzinski-Tavassi, Ana Marisa
Resumen
The accidental contact with Lonomia obliqua caterpillar causes local and systemic symptoms (such as fibrinogen
depletion), leading, in some cases, to serious clinical complications (acute renal failure and intracranial haemorrhage).
Fortunately, a successful therapeutical approach using anti-Lonomic serum, produced in horses against L. obliqua’s bristle
extract, has already been put in place. However, a global view of immunogenic toxins involved in the coagulation disorders
could help to elucidate the envenoming process. In the present study, our aim was to identify bristle extract’s immunogenic
components, especially those related to the haemostasis, coupling proteomics and immunochemical approaches
(bidimensional electrophoresis, mass spectrometry and immunoblotting). The bidimensional map of bristle extract
showed a broad profile of 157 silver-stained spots, where at least 153 spots were immunochemically revealed. Twenty-four
of these spots were submitted to sequencing by mass spectrometry and three different categories of proteins were identified:
lipocalins, cuticle proteins and serpins. From these protein families, it was observed that the most abundant was the
lipocalin family, specifically represented by different isoforms of Lopap (a prothrombin activator protein), reinforcing its
relevance during envenoming. Peptide sequences of several other immunochemically revealed spots showed no
correspondence to any known sequence and were classified as unknown proteins. These proteins could represent new
immunogenic molecules and/or toxins. The sequences presented in this article can be used for oligonucleotide design
aiming the amplification of cDNAs coding for new molecules using L. obliqua bristles’ cDNA libraries or isolated RNAs
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