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SMase II, a new sphingomyelinase D from Loxosceles laeta venom gland: Molecular cloning, expression, function and structural analysis

de Santi Ferrara, Guilherme I., Fernandes-Pedrosa, Matheus de F., Junqueira-de-Azevedo, Inácio de L. M., Gonçalves-de-Andrade, Rute M., Portaro, Fernanda C. V., Manzoni-de-Almeida, Daniel, Murakami, Mário T., Arni, Raghuvir K., Van Den Berg, Carmen Wilma, Ho, Paulo L. and Tambourgi, Denise V. 2009. SMase II, a new sphingomyelinase D from Loxosceles laeta venom gland: Molecular cloning, expression, function and structural analysis. Toxicon 53 (7-8) , pp. 743-753. 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.02.013

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Abstract

Sphingomyelinase D (SMase D) present in the venoms of Loxosceles spiders is the principal component responsible for local and systemic effects observed in the loxoscelism. By using “expressed sequencing tag”, it was possible to identify, in a L. laeta venom gland library, clones containing inserts coding for proteins with similarity to SMase D. One of these clones was expressed and the recombinant protein compared with the previously characterized SMase I from L. laeta, in terms of their biological, biochemical and structural properties. The new recombinant protein, SMase II, possesses all the biological properties ascribed to the whole venom and SMase I. SMase II shares 40% and 77% sequence similarity with SMase I and Lb3, respectively; the latter, a SMase D isoform from L. boneti, catalytically inactive. Molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations were employed to understand the structural basis, especially the presence of an additional disulfide bridge, in an attempt to account for the observed differences in SMases D activity.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Loxosceles laeta; Venom; Sphingomyelinase gene; Activity; Protein structure
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0041-0101
Last Modified: 04 Jun 2017 03:44
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/25586

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