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Cyclotides :
Cyclotides : Tuning Parameters Toward Their Use in Drug Design
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- Yeshak, Mariamawit Yonathan (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Medicinska och farmaceutiska vetenskapsområdet
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- Göransson, Ulf, Docent (preses)
- Uppsala universitet,Medicinska och farmaceutiska vetenskapsområdet
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- Bohlin, Lars, Professor (preses)
- Uppsala universitet,Medicinska och farmaceutiska vetenskapsområdet
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- Asres, Kaleab, Associate Professor (preses)
- Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University
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- Kiss, Robert, Professor (opponent)
- Université libre de Bruxelles
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- ISBN 9789155483074
- Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2012
- Engelska 81 s.
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Serie: Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy, 1651-6192 ; 156
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Abstract
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- Cyclotides are plant proteins with a unique topology, defined as the cyclic cystine knot motif. The motif endows cyclotides with exceptional chemical and biological stability. They also exhibit a wide range of biological activities including insecticidal, cytotoxic, anti-HIV and antimicrobial effects. Hence, cyclotides have become potential candidates in the development of peptide-based drugs; either as scaffolds to stabilize susceptible peptide sequences or as drugs by their own right. In this thesis, important parameters that could be inputs toward this development have been tuned. An extraction protocol that can be extended to industrial scale production of the cyclotides from natural sources was developed; accordingly, a single maceration with hydroalcoholic solutions of medium polarity represented an optimum extraction method. Moreover, it was shown that investigating the cyclotide content of cyclotide-bearing plants from diverse environments is a promising approach for extending the knowledge of both structural and biological diversity of these proteins. Five novel cyclotides with new sequence diversity were isolated and characterized from a violet that grows on Ethiopian highlands at an altitude of 3400 m. One of the areas where the cyclotide framework has attracted interest is the development of stable antimicrobial peptides. A stability study was carried out to determine the stability of the cyclotide framework in a cocktail of bacterial proteases and serum where the native forms of tested cyclotides exhibited high stability profile. Understanding the modes of cyclotide-cell interaction is certainly an important factor for the potential development of cyclotide-based drugs. Cellular studies were carried out using the comet assay and microautoradiography. A bell-shaped dose response curve was obtained for the DNA damaging effect of the cyclotides in the comet assay, which was the first toxicological assay of its kind on this class of proteins. The microautoradiography study revealed that the cyclotides penetrate into the cells even at cytotoxic concentrations. From previous reports, it was known that the cyclotides interact with membranes; the cellular studies in this thesis added to this knowledge by clearly demonstrating that these proteins have multiple modes of action.
Nyckelord
- cyclotide
- Viola abyssinica
- Viola odorata
- Extraction
- Violaceae
- vaby
- cytotoxic
- genotoxic
- cell penetrating
- microautoradiography
- LC-MS
- comet assay
- cycloviolacin O2
- Farmakognosi
- Pharmacognosy
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