Bibliographic citations
Riveros, R., (2024). Obtención de variantes de ferritina de soya con selectividad para cadmio mediante clonación y mutagénesis in vivo en Saccharomyces cerevisiae [Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/6335
Riveros, R., Obtención de variantes de ferritina de soya con selectividad para cadmio mediante clonación y mutagénesis in vivo en Saccharomyces cerevisiae []. PE: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/6335
@phdthesis{renati/247650,
title = "Obtención de variantes de ferritina de soya con selectividad para cadmio mediante clonación y mutagénesis in vivo en Saccharomyces cerevisiae",
author = "Riveros Alcedo, Renato Gonzalo",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2024"
}
Ferritin is a multimeric protein that stores thousands of ferric ions in numerous organisms, but one important exception is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, this yeast can produce high levels of functional heterologous ferritins, such as the soybean H1 subunit (sH1). Iron selectivity is based on ferroxidase activity, which allows the oxidation of ferrous ions and their eventual efficient storage. Likewise, this protein also exhibits affinities to other metal ions such as cadmium, important examples being pea and horse ferritins. A comparison of the amino acid sequences of these ferritins allowed the identification of a region that might be responsible for the different specificities. Therefore, this study aimed to produce soybean ferritin variants with increased cadmium selectivity in S. cerevisiae. On the one hand, two amino acids from horse ferritin and five from pea ferritin were incorporated into sH1, achieving the production of the sH1hp variant in yeast cells, which exhibited a greater resistance to cadmium. Once this was achieved, the five amino acid region was subjected to random mutagenesis. The in vivo cloning approach allowed the efficient construction of a plasmid library and the immediate expression of the variants in S. cerevisiae. The screening of the yeast transformants obtained allowed the identification of the sH1trc variant, which allowed the growth of the yeast transformants in media containing high concentrations of cadmium. Furthermore, to reduce the affinity of the ferritin variants towards iron, the amino acids responsible for the ferroxidase activity were also mutated. Finally, the thermostable protein fractions were subjected to analysis by SDS-PAGE and quantification of cadmium. With these assays, it was verified the production of thermostable ferritin variants and, in addition, that the variants that lacked ferroxidase activity had the highest cadmium content. Consequently, cadmium removal of up to 80 per cent was achieved with these variants.
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