Regulação de proteínas da via glicolítica em raízes de Elaeis guineensis Jacq. acometidas pelo amarelecimento datal.

O aparecimento do Amarelecimento Fatal (AF) tem sido um empecilho para o crescimento da cultura do dendezeiro. Neste sentido, várias pesquisas foram realizadas visando identificar as causas do AF. No entanto outras estratégias precisam ser aplicadas. Técnicas em proteômica vêem se modernizando para obter o perfil protéico qualitativo e quantitativo com maior velocidade e precisão. Sabendo que a regulação de componentes do metabolismo primário está envolvida direta ou indiretamente na defesa, o objetivo deste trabalho foi utilizar a cromatografia líquida bidimensional e espectrometria de massas (2D-UPLC/MSE) com o auxílio de ferramentas de bioinformática na identificação de alterações de proteínas envolvidas no metabolismo energético em raízes de plantas com AF. Os resultados revelaram a expressão diferencial de proteínas envolvidas na glicólise, onde a maior frequência de regulação positiva dessas em plantas assintomáticas pode estar relacionada ao retardo no desenvolvimento desta doença.

Detection of human interchromosomal trans-splicing in sequence databanks.

Trans-splicing is a common phenomenon in nematodes and kinetoplastids, and it has also been reported in other organisms, including humans. Up to now, all in silico strategies to find evidence of trans-splicing in humans have required that the candidate sequences follow the consensus splicing site rules (spliceosome-mediated mechanism). However, this criterion is not supported by the best human experimental evidence, which, except in a single case, do not follow canonical splicing sites. Moreover, recent findings describe a novel alternative tRNA mediated trans-splicing mechanism, which prescinds the spliceosome machinery. In order to answer the question, ?Are there hybrid mRNAs in sequence databanks, whose characteristics resemble those of the best human experimental evidence??, we have developed a methodology that successfully identified 16 hybrid mRNAs which might be instances of interchromosomal trans-splicing. Each hybrid mRNA is formed by a trans-spliced region (TSR), which was successfully mapped either onto known genes or onto a human endogenous retrovirus (HERV-K) transcript which supports their transcription. The existence of these hybrid mRNAs indicates that trans-splicing may be more widespread than believed. Furthermore, non-canonical splice site patterns suggest that infrequent splicing sites may occur under special conditions, or that an alternative trans-splicing mechanism is involved. Finally, our candidates are supposedly from normal tissue, and a recent study has reported that trans-splicing may occur not only in malignant tissues, but in normal tissues as well. Our methodology can be applied to 5'-UTR, coding sequences and 3'-UTR in order to find new candidates for a posteriori experimental confirmation.