ABSTRACT
The Phanera splendens (Kunth) Vaz. is a medicinal plant that is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases, such as malaria. This plant presents highly efficient endophytic bacterial isolates with biocontrol properties. Bacillus sp. is responsible for the production of a variety of non-ribosomal synthesized cyclic lipopeptides which highlight the surfactins. Surfactins have a wide range of antimicrobial activity, including antiplasmodial activity. There is scientific evidence that surfactin structure 2d-01 can be a potent inhibitor against a Plasmodium falciparum sirtuin (Sir2) by acting on the Sir2A protein as the target. The Pf genome encodes two known sirtuins, PfSir2A and PfSir2B, where PfSir2A is a regulator of asexual growth and var gene expression. Herein, we have identified six surfactins produced by endophytic bacteria and performed in silico analysis to elucidate the binding mode of surfactins at the active site of the PfSir2A enzyme. Among the characterized surfactins, 1d-02 showed the highest affinity for the PfSir2A enzyme, with binding energy values equal to -45.08 ± 6.0 and -11.95 ± 0.8 kcal/mol, using MM/GBSA and SIE methods, respectively. We hope that the information about the surfactin structures obtained in this work, as well as the potential binding affinity with an important enzyme from P. falciparum, could contribute to the design of new compounds with antimalarial activity.
ABSTRACT
Com o intuito de determinar a frequência de bactérias enteropatogênicas e enteroparasitas em pacientes com diarreia aguda no Município de Juruti, Pará, o qual passa por intenso processo imigratório face o grande projeto de exploração mineral, avaliaram-se 263 casos de diarreia aguda, dos quais 19 por cento foram atribuídos a bactérias enteropatogênicas, destacando-se a Shigella spp, que representou 13,7 por cento. Salmonella spp, Aeromonas spp e Plesiomonas shigelloides também foram detectados. Os sorotipos de Shigella mais frequentemente encontrados foram S. flexneri (61,1 por cento) e S. sonnei (38,9 por cento). Entre as Salmonella, identificaram-se os seguintes sorotipos: S. Panama (2), S. Newport (2), S. Bredeney, S. Saintpaul e S. Gaminara. A infecção pelos protozoários alcançou 85,3 por cento tendo como principais responsáveis, por ordem de frequência, Blastocystis hominis (37,3 por cento), Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar (22,8 por cento), Endolimax nana (16,7 por cento), Entamoeba coli (9,5 por cento) e Giardia lamblia (8,4 por cento). Esses resultados fornecem valiosos subsídios à vigilância epidemiológica e ambiental, demonstrando as condições insatisfatórias de saneamento básico em que vive a população do Município.
With the aim of determining the frequency rate of enteropathogenic bacteria and enteroparasites in patients with acute diarrhea in the Municipality of Juruti, Pará State, which has been facing an intense migratory process due to a great mining project, we analyzed 263 cases of acute diarrhea. A total of 19 percent of those cases were related to enteropathogenic bacteria, particularly Shigella spp. that accounted for 13.7 percent of the cases. Salmonella spp, Aeromonas spp and Plesiomonas shigeloide were also detected. The most frequent Shigella serotypes found were S. flexneri (61.1 percent) and S. sonnei (38.9 percent). Among the Salmonella, we could observe the following serotypes: S. Panama (2), S. Newport (2), S. Bredeney, S. Saintpaul and S. Gaminara. The infection caused by protozoa reached 85.3 percent, mostly due to Blastocystis hominis (37.3 percent), Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar (22.8 percent), Endolimax nana (16.7 percent), Entamoeba coli (9.5 percent) and Giardia lamblia (8.4 percent). These results provide valuable data to epidemiological and environmental surveillance because it presents the unsatisfactory basic sanitary conditions of the local population.
