Dissertações em Biotecnologia (Mestrado) - PPGBIOTEC/ICB
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O Mestrado em Biotecnologia teve início em 2011 e funciona no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia (PPGBIOTEC) do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).
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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Caracterização antigênica, físico-química e biológica do vírus BE AR 701405, obtido a partir de mosquitos da espécie Psorophora (Jan) ferox, capturados em Altamira – Pará(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-03-26) ARAÚJO, João Batista dos Santos; LEAL, Élcio de Souza; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1158983666415285The BE AR 701405 virus was isolated from a pool of Psorophora (Jan.) ferox mosquitoes captured in the municipality of Altamira, Para state, Northern Brazil, in 2006. The objective of this study was the physicochemical, biological and antigenic characterization of the BE AR 701405 virus in order to provide data for it taxonomic classification. Newborn mice inoculated by intracerebral route showed evidences of neurological manifestations, such as chill and motor disorders after the infection with the virus BE AR 701405. Cytophatic effect (CPE) was in infected Aedes albopictus C6/36 cells was not clearly observed, however in VERO cells CPE was observed after 48 hors post infection. The virus load was determined in 10-4,1 LD50/ 0.02 mL and the titer after DCE analysis was calculated in 10−2,6 LD50/0,02 mL. The BE AR 701405 virus reacted antigenically with Pixuna virus hiperimmune serum. In conclusion, the studied vírus was sensible to the DCA solvent suggesting that it is an enveloped virus. Furthermore, by serology this virus was identified as a member of the group A, genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae, more closely related to Pixuna virus. In addition, newborn mice, as well as C6/36 and VERO cells demonstrated to be sensible to the infection by the BE AR 701405 vírus. Further studies are needed to better understand the antigenic relationship between the BE AR 701405 virus and Pixuna virus.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Relação entre níveis de células T CD4+ e pressão seletiva nos genes env e vif do HIV-1 subtipos B e C(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-08-31) PEREIRA, Raimundo Cristovão Ferreira; LEAL, Élcio de Souza; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1158983666415285Previous studies have shown a direct relationship between levels of CD4+ Tlymphocytes and evolutionary rates of HIV-1 (DIAZ et al, 2008; LEMEY et al, 2007; NOSTROM et al, 2014.). Other factors also affect the variability of the env gene: for example function of neutralizing antibodies - Nabs (FROST et al., 2005), the variation in glycosylation sites; (LEAL et al, 2012 LEAL et al., 2008), binding to target cell receptors (i.e, CD4, CXCR4, CCR5), and also the switch from CCR5 to CXCR4 receptor (MILD et al., 2013). Thus, the relationship between viral levels diversification and CD4 + T cells in the env gene can be circumstantial. The vif gene, on the other hand, it is retained and not subject to bias present in the env gene (i.e, glycosylation sites, etc.). Thus, to study the influence of CD4 + T cells levels in HIV variability, the estimate of the selective regimes was used (Nonsynonymous Substitutions - dN and Synonymous Substitutions - dS) by a codon-based model and phylogenetic analysis of unrelated individuals (inter-host). HIV-1 sequences were used of the not-correlated individuals, obtained from the Los Alamos Database. The sequences were separated into CD4+ levels of categories and then analyzed. The analysis revealed no direct correlation between CD4+ T cell levels and evolutionary rates in gp120 and vif gene from HIV-1, subtypes B and C in a population approach.