Investigação biossintética, transcriptômica e proteômica em espécies de Piperaceae

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Produtividade, compostos bioativos e atividade antioxidante em Eryngium foetidum L

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Horticultura) - FCA

Planejamento, síntese e avaliação fotoprotetora de novos compostos híbridos derivados do resveratrol, cinamatos e avobenzona planejados como filtros solares

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Abordagens biossintéticas em piper tuberculatum auxiliada pela síntese de precursores fenilpropanoídicos

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Ethyl Ferulate, a Component with Anti-Inflammatory Properties for Emulsion-Based Creams

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Compostos bioativos e atividade sequestrante de radicais livres de quatro cultivares do Coffea arabica L. em diferentes estádios de maturação dos frutos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Magnetic Purification of Curcumin from Curcuma longa Rhizome by Novel Naked Maghemite Nanoparticles

Naked maghemite nanoparticles, namely, surface active maghemite nanoparticles (SAMNs), characterized by a diameter of about 10 nm, possessing peculiar colloidal stability, surface chemistry, and superparamagnetism, present fundamental requisites for the development of effective magnetic purification processes for biomolecules in complex matrices. Polyphenolic molecules presenting functionalities with different proclivities toward iron chelation were studied as probes for testing SAMN suitability for magnetic purification. Thus, the binding efficiency and reversibility on SAMNs of phenolic compounds of interest in the pharmaceutical and food industries, namely, catechin, tyrosine, hydroxytyrosine, ferulic acid, coumaric acid, rosmarinic acid, naringenin, curcumin, and cyanidin-3-glucoside, were evaluated. Curcumin emerged as an elective compound, suitable for magnetic purification by SAMNs from complex matrices. A combination of curcumin, demethoxycurcumin, and bis-demethoxycurcumin was recovered by a single magnetic purification step from extracts of Curcuma longa rhizomes, with a purity >98% and a purification yield of 45%, curcumin being >80% of the total purified curcuminoids.

Influência do glyphosate no perfil bioquímico e fisiológico de populações de azevém (Lolium multiflorum) suscetíveis e resistentes ao herbicida

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Caracterização do potencial inseticida e capacidade antioxidante de Spathodea campanulata (Bignoniaceae)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Bioprospecção em espécies de Inga (Fabaceae Mimosoideae)

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Peroxidase and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activities, phenolic acid contents, and allelochemicals-inhibited root growth of soybean

The influence of the allelochemicals ferulic (FA) and vanillic (VA) acids on peroxidase (POD, EC 1.11.1.7) and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL, EC 4.3.1.5) activities and their relationships with phenolic acid (PhAs) contents and root growth of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) were examined. Three-day-old seedlings were cultivated in nutrient solution containing FA or VA (0.1 to 1 mM) for 48 h. Both compounds (at 0.5 and 1 mM) decreased root length (RL), fresh weight (FW) and dry weight (DW) and increased PhAs contents. At 0.5 and 1 mM, FA increased soluble POD activity (18% and 47%, respectively) and cell wall (CW)-bound POD activity (61% and 34%), while VA increased soluble POD activity (33% and 17%) but did not affect CW-bound POD activity. At I mM, FA increased (82%) while VA reduced (32%) PAL activities. The results are discussed on the basis of the role of these compounds on phenylpropanoid metabolism and root growth and suggest that the effects caused on POD and PAL activities are some of the many mechanisms by which allelochemicals influence plant growth.