Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular - PPGBM/ICB

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O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular (PPGBM) do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA). Tem como objetivo geral promover a formação de profissionais da área de Ciências Biológicas, informática e áreas afins, preparando-os como docentes, pesquisadores e profissionais técnicos especializados, buscando a melhoria da qualidade do ensino e o progresso do conhecimento, com aplicações diretas ou indiretas ao desenvolvimento nacional e à melhoria de condições de vida, particularmente dos habitantes da região amazônica, assim como a conservação da biodiversidade, ecossistemas e recursos naturais.

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Alterações genômicas quantitativas com potencial clínico no adenocarcinoma gástrico
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-05-31) ARAÚJO, Taíssa Maíra Thomaz; KHAYAT, André Salim; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6305099258051586
Gastric cancer is the fifth most frequent type of cancer and the third cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Despite progression in treatment of advanced gastric cancer, the prognosis of patients remains poor, in part due to the low rate of diagnosis during its early stages. This paradigm implies the necessity to search and identify molecular biomarkers for early gastric cancer diagnosis, as well as for disease monitoring, thus contributing to the development of new therapeutic approaches. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating copy number variations in gastric adenocarcnoma through array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) technique and selecting genes for validation in a larger sample size by using real-time PCR, in order to find potential molecular biomarkers for this tumor type. The aCGH results demonstrated 22 gene alterations never described before as correlated with gastric carinogenesis, as well as several alterations significantly associated with serosal extravasation and patients aged less than or equal 50 years. Given that most of the genes had never been described in gastric cancer, we selected for validation four gene alterations that showed some consistency with studies published in the literature for other types of cancer. Thus, we investigated by real-time PCR the amplifications of RTEL1, B4GALT5, TRPV2 and ABCA13 genes. The results showed a high frequency of amplification of these genes, but the statistical associations with clinicopathological data of TRPV2 gene with younger patients and ABCA13, with serosal extravasation, observed by aCGH, were not confirmed. Moreover, new significant associations were demonstrated, including RTEL1 recurrent amplification associated with advanced age and intestinal type of gastric adenocarcinoma; B4GALT5 recurrent amplification associated with intestinal type of gastric adenocarcinoma; TRPV2 recurrent amplification associated with lymph node metastasis; ABCA13 recurrent amplification associated with lymph node metastasis and male patients and co-amplification of RTEL1 and ABCA13 associated with advanced staging. Therefore, the aCGH proved to be a useful tool for the investigating new genes associated with carcinogenesis. Additionally, recurrent amplification of RTEL1, B4GALT5, TRPV2 and ABCA13 seem to have an important role in the development and progression of gastric cancer and can be considered as potential biomarkers for this disease.
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Biologia molecular aplicada à hanseníase: estudo de parâmetros genéticos e epigenéticos em uma amostra do estado do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-09-02) PINTO, Pablo Diego do Carmo; SANTOS, Ândrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3899534338451625
Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and patients can be grouped in Paucibacillary and Multibacillary. Alternatively, according by Ridley-Jopling (1966), using immune-hystogical criteria, grouped in two distinct pole: (i) Tuberculóide (TT); and (ii) lepromatous (LL), and your intermediaries. Independently these classification, the disease can be affected by molecules that modulates immune response, like genes that encode these molecules, and by small RNA (micro-RNA), wich regulated these genes, thus these study can improve the knowledge about the mechanism of response to infectious process, as well as enable the identification of new possibles biomarkers to assist diagnosis in leprosy. The objective of this study was to investigate eight INDEL polymorphisms on genes CYP19A1, NFKβ1, IL1α, CASP8, UGT1A1, PAR1, CYP2E1, and IL4, to identify possible susceptibility markers of leprosy and evaluate the influence of genetic ancestry on disease risk. Besides was performed the first genome wide miRNA profiling of Leprosy by next generation sequencing (NGS), assessing and describing the expression standard in leprosy. Our study shows that the NFKβ1, CASP8, PAR1, IL4 and CYP19A1 genes are possible markers for the susceptibility to development of leprosy and the severe clinical form MB. Moreover, after correcting for population structure within an admixture population, the results show that different levels of ethnic group composition can generate different OR rates for leprosy susceptibility. The differential expression profile from tissue samples reveal 67 miRNAs differentially expression, with 43 down and 24 upregulated and from blood sample were found a total of 10 miRNAs differentially expression with 9 down and one upregulated. Moreover was performed in silico target analysis and detect the genes (IL1β, IL6, IL8, IL12, TLR2, TLR4, IL17RB, IFNGR1, TGFBR1, NFκβ, família SMAD, STAT3, CASP8, CYP19A1, BCL-2, in others) involved on pathological of leprosy. Lastly, was showed for the first time the genome wide microRNA of leprosy.
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Farmacogenômica das fluoropirimidinas no tratamento oncológico personalizado
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-12-29) FERNANDES, Marianne Rodrigues; BURBANO, Rommel Mario Rodriguéz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4362051219348099
Recently, cancer has become an obvious public health problem worldwide. The Fluoropyrimidine-based regimen has been the most widely used chemotherapy regimen worldwide in several types of solid tumors, including gastric and colorectal cancer. Of the total number of patients treated with 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU), 10-40% have severe toxicities, which usually result in prolonged and costly hospitalizations. The principle of personalized medicine is to study responses to medications based on individual genomic information. The high degree of miscegenation is a challenge for the worldwide implementation of personalized medicine in clinical practice. Many studies in the specialized literature have reported the influence of pharmacogenomic markers in mixed populations such as the Brazilian population. The aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacogenomic variability of different biomarkers in pharmacogenes involved in the metabolism pathway of Fluoropyrimidines in patients with gastric cancer or colorectal cancer, which are sub-strutured according to response and toxicity to treatment. To perform the research we used 216 patients with colorectal or gastric cancer who received 5-FU chemotherapy treatment. We investigated 33 genetic polymorphisms in 17 pharmacogens (ABCB1, ABCC2, ABCC4, ABCG2, CYP2A6, DPYD, FPSG, ITGB5, MTHFR, SLC22A7, SLC29A1, TP53, TYMS, UMPS, GGH, RRM1, TYMP) involved in the metabolism pathway of fluoropyrimidines. Our results showed that 77.3% of the patients presented some type of toxicity related to 5-FU treatment, of which 22% presented severe toxicities classified in grade 3 and 4. Death occurred in 23 patients, where three cases were related to toxicity and four cases with tumor progression and chemotherapeutic toxicity. Population substructuration was not influential in the association results for pharmacogenetic polymorphisms with the use of 5-FU. The FPGS gene (rs4451422) was shown to be significant in association with overall toxicity (p = 0.0052; OR 0.32) and toxicity events (p = 0.0004; OR 0.22). The ABCC4 gene (rs148551) had a significant association with the clinical response (p = 0.0056; OR 0.28). The SLC29A1 gene (rs760370) was shown to be significant for grade 3 and 4 toxicities (p = 0.0033; OR 4.73). In conclusion, due to the high degree of miscegenation in the Brazilian population, and particularly in the North of Brazil, the generated 5-FU pharmacogenomics data are particularly unique when compared to the homogenous populations investigated to date. The ABCC4, FPGS and SLC29A1 genes have been shown to be important biomarkers predictive of personalized medicine therapy using 5-FU.
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Perfil de MicroRNAs hepáticos pode regular apoptose, lesões vasculares e inflamação na dengue hemorrágica
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-06-30) OLIVEIRA, Layanna Freitas de; BURBANO, Rommel Mario Rodriguéz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4362051219348099
Dengue is the most prevalent arbovirosis in the world caused by Dengue virus (DENV) and is present in all continents, for more than three decades has been a constant public health concern and often fatal by dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). The pathogenesis of dengue is closely related to the host immune response, reaching exacerbated inflammation and transient autoimmunity. All tissues are affected, which liver is one of the most important in severe conditions, due its intense viral replication and its significant role in metabolism. The study of microRNAs (miRNA) as regulatory elements of metabolism and immune response during infection is crucial to understanding the regulatory mechanisms of gene expression on DENV infection, and can help in diagnostic development of anti-viral therapies. We sequenced the miRNoma in MySeq platform (Illumina) to identify the miRNAs profile expressed in FFPE liver tissue, ten DHF fatal cases were compared to five control cases. Eight miRNAs exhibited differential expression in DHF liver, miR-126-5p, a regulatory molecule of endothelial cells, and miR-133a-3p are upregulated in dengue and miR-122-5p, a liver-specific miRNA, miR- 146a-5p, interferon regulator, miR-10b-5p, miR-204-5p, miR-148a-5p and miR-423-5p were downregulated. Functional analysis of KEGG pathways and GO terms with predicted target genes of overexpressed miRNAs found regulatory pathways of apoptosis and immune response, involving MAPK gene, RAS, CDK and FAS; immune response pathways showed NF- kB, CC and CX families, IL and TLR. The same analysis with target genes of downregulated miRNAs also identified in most pathways of apoptosis and biosynthetic pathways of metabolism. In our knowledge, this is the first description of the liver miRNA profile in DHF, the results together show a feasible relationship of miR-126-5p, miR-122-5p and miR-146a-5p with liver pathogenesis of DHF, through endothelial repair and vascular permeability regulation, control of homeostasis and liver expression regulation of inflammatory cytokines.

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