Dinâmicas e relações intra-organizacionais nos cuidados às crianças / adolescentes com diabetes mellitus tipo 1

Mestrado em Intervenção Sócio-Organizacional na Saúde. Área de especialização: Políticas de Administração e Gestão dos Serviços de Saúde.

A serological investigation of rotavirus infections in a shanty town population in Rio de Janeiro

The presence of antibodies against rotavirus was investigated by enzyme immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in two distinct groups of children living in a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro. One hundred and thirty six plasma samples were randomly collected from children of 0 to 33 months (first group) and 255 serum samples were collected from other 85 children at ages of 2, 6 and 9 months (second group). A high percentage of antibodies were found in the newborn children and this rate decreased progressively until the age of 11 months, after which it increased again. At the age of 7 months, geometric mean antibody titers increased indicating that infection had occurred.

Metal ions modulate the folding and stability of the tumor suppressor protein S100A2

Febs Journal (2009)276:1776-1786

Natural and amyloid self-assembly of S100 proteins: structural basis of functional diversity

The S100 proteins are 10-12 kDa EF-hand proteins that act as central regulators in a multitude of cellular processes including cell survival, proliferation, differentiation and motility. Consequently, many S100 proteins are implicated and display marked changes in their expression levels in many types of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The structure and function of S100 proteins are modulated by metal ions via Ca2+ binding through EF-hand motifs and binding of Zn2+ and Cu2+ at additional sites, usually at the homodimer interfaces. Ca2+ binding modulates S100 conformational opening and thus promotes and affects the interaction with p53, the receptor for advanced glycation endproducts and Toll-like receptor 4, among many others. Structural plasticity also occurs at the quaternary level, where several S100 proteins self-assemble into multiple oligomeric states, many being functionally relevant. Recently, we have found that the S100A8/A9 proteins are involved in amyloidogenic processes in corpora amylacea of prostate cancer patients, and undergo metal-mediated amyloid oligomerization and fibrillation in vitro. Here we review the unique chemical and structural properties of S100 proteins that underlie the conformational changes resulting in their oligomerization upon metal ion binding and ultimately in functional control. The possibility that S100 proteins have intrinsic amyloid-forming capacity is also addressed, as well as the hypothesis that amyloid self-assemblies may, under particular physiological conditions, affect the S100 functions within the cellular milieu.

S100A6 Amyloid Fibril Formation Is Calcium-modulated and Enhances Superoxide Dismutase-1 (SOD1) Aggregation

S100A6 is a small EF-hand calcium- and zinc-binding protein involved in the regulation of cell proliferation and cytoskeletal dynamics. It is overexpressed in neurodegenerative disorders and a proposed marker for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Following recent reports of amyloid formation by S100 proteins, we investigated the aggregation properties of S100A6. Computational analysis using aggregation predictors Waltz and Zyggregator revealed increased propensity within S100A6 helices HI and HIV. Subsequent analysis of Thioflavin-T binding kinetics under acidic conditions elicited a very fast process with no lag phase and extensive formation of aggregates and stacked fibrils as observed by electron microscopy. Ca2+ exerted an inhibitory effect on the aggregation kinetics, which could be reverted upon chelation. An FT-IR investigation of the early conformational changes occurring under these conditions showed that Ca2+ promotes anti-parallel β-sheet conformations that repress fibrillation. At pH 7, Ca2+ rendered the fibril formation kinetics slower: time-resolved imaging showed that fibril formation is highly suppressed, with aggregates forming instead. In the absence of metals an extensive network of fibrils is formed. S100A6 oligomers, but not fibrils, were found to be cytotoxic, decreasing cell viability by up to 40%. This effect was not observed when the aggregates were formed in the presence of Ca2+. Interestingly, native S1006 seeds SOD1 aggregation, shortening its nucleation process. This suggests a cross-talk between these two proteins involved in ALS. Overall, these results put forward novel roles for S100 proteins, whose metal-modulated aggregation propensity may be a key aspect in their physiology and function.

Glicoconjugados en el Sistema Nervioso Central en desarrollo

Se continúa con el estudio de la biosíntesis y expresión de glicoconjugados en el desarrollo del Sistema Nervioso Central de aves y mamíferos. La diferenciación de las células neurales va acompañada por variaciones en las actividades de gangliósido glicosiltransferasas claves. Dichas variaciones contribuyen a generar cambios importantes en la calidad de los gangliósidos de la superficie celular. En este proyecto se trata de: I) Examinar los diferentes niveles potenciales de control de la actividad de estas enzimas, como así también del complejo mecanismo de transporte intracelular que culmina con la síntesis y localización celular del producto terminado. II) Indagar el proceso que vincula los diferentes compartimentos metabólicos que operan durante la biosíntesis y/o reciclado. III) Estimar los niveles de transcriptos para la N-acetilgalactosaminiltransferasa de cerebro de pollo, usando sondas de cDNA apropiadas. IV) Estimar la cantidad de proteína enzimática y determinar su ubicación celular y subcelular utilizando anticuerpos obtenidos contra la enzima expresada como proteína de fusión en células pro- o eucariotas. V) Examinar el efecto de la transformación de células COS-7 y/o NIH3T3 con oncogenes o protooncogenes constitutivamente activados sobre el metabolismo de sus gangliósidos. VI) Determinar condiciones para optimizar la obtención de gangliósidos de potencial aplicación en la terapia de melanomas y también de derivados de ácido siálico inhibidores de neuraminidasa, de potencial aplicación para limitar las patologías generadas por el virus de la influenza o gripe.

Gymnophoina (Amphibia apoda) bearbeitet von dr. Fr. Nieden ... Mit 20 abbildungen.

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New land mollusks from Madagascar and Mexico.

v.44:no.3(1961)

A new species of land snail from Bolivia.

v.44:no.10(1962)

A tentative classification of the palearctic unionids.

v.24:no.11(1940)

Malacological notes.

v.24:no.8(1939)

Records of large fresh-water mussels.

v.24:no.24(1941)