Bibliographic citations
Gonzales, M., (2024). Aplicaciones de la levadura S. cerevisiae en estudios de la capacidad antioxidante de extractos de plantas silvestres y péptidos aleatorios [Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/6375
Gonzales, M., Aplicaciones de la levadura S. cerevisiae en estudios de la capacidad antioxidante de extractos de plantas silvestres y péptidos aleatorios []. PE: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/6375
@phdthesis{renati/247049,
title = "Aplicaciones de la levadura S. cerevisiae en estudios de la capacidad antioxidante de extractos de plantas silvestres y péptidos aleatorios",
author = "Gonzales Uscamayta, Miki",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2024"
}
The importance of the study of natural products is based on their multiple bioactive properties, including antioxidant capacity. The later can be estimated through in vitro assays that are widely used, and in vivo assays are used less frequently, due to the complexity of the mechanism of action. For this reason, in this investigation the study of antioxidants using Saccharomyces cerevisiae was proposed, which was divided into two parts: the first consisted of evaluation the antioxidant activities of the aqueous extracts of seven wild plants through in vitro and in vivo tests. The in vitro assay was based on the use of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), and the in vivo assay, on the sensitivity of yeast sod1 mutants towards hydrogen peroxide. The seven wild plants collected in the Ccamarrara hill (4000 m.a.s.l Cusco, Peru) were the following: Plantago australis, Baccharis latifolia, Ageratina sternbergiana, Stevia macbridei, Ageratina cuzcoensis, Calceolaria myriophylla and Adiantum orbignyanum. The DPPH assay revealed a high content of antioxidants in the dried leaves of all tested plants, with ascorbic acid equivalent antioxidant capacity (AAEAC) values ranging from 20.6 to 72.7 mg/g. The antioxidant activity was also demonstrated in tests with yeast cells, which advantageously allowed distinction between intracellular and extracellular effects. These in vitro and in vivo studies of antioxidant activity demonstrate the need for further investigation of native Andean wild plants as important sources of water-soluble antioxidant compounds. The second part of this investigation included in vivo studies of the antioxidant capacity of reported peptides (derived from protein hydrolysates) and random peptides. To do this, the sequences coding for the peptides of interest were cloned in the pRS416-GPD expression plasmid, by in vivo cloning in yeast cells. The evaluation of the antioxidant activity of the expressed peptides was determined by resistance tests of the transformants to hydrogen peroxide. Subsequently, the plasmids that had been constructed and characterized in yeast were recovered and amplified in Escherichia coli cells, which allowed their purification and analysis by nucleotide sequencing. The optimization of this cloning and expression protocol was later applied in the construction of a plasmid library, which allows the generation of a great diversity of random oligopeptides. This library could be efficiently applied for the identification of oligopeptides with antioxidant capacity and others of interest. The results reported in this work demonstrated that the use of S. cerevisiae yeast allows the efficient characterization and evaluation of antioxidant activity through the hydrogen peroxide resistance assay. Further, the antioxidant studies with S. cerevisiae proved to be a complementary method to evaluate the antioxidant effect of peptides and plant extracts.
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