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Title: Determinación computacional de la relación estructura-actividad en las conotoxinas cal29b y xm11a, y su unión a los receptores farmacológicos en Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Author: Velo Fernández, Carlos Santiago
Tutor: Romero Cuevas, Miguel
Others: Canovas Izquierdo, Javier Luis  
Abstract: Conotoxins are a group of peptides extracted from the venom of marine cone snails belonging to genus Conus. In the last few years these peptides have been studied due to its great therapeutic potential. Recent research studies describe two new conotoxins, cal29a and xm11a, which showed pharmacological activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main cause of tuberculosis. This disease is one of main causes of death worldwide. The structure of these conotoxins is not published and their mechanism of action is unknown. Bioinformatic tools like Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) could give an approach to the structure and how conotoxins binds to the targets. As a result of this research we propose a structural characterization from the peptide sequence of these conotoxins and peptide-protein docking models for the most relevant targets for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The results of this reseach show similarities between conotoxins with antimycobacterial activity. However, more studies are needed in order to characterize the mechanism of action.
Keywords: docking
conotoxin
Mycobacterium
CADD
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 4-Jun-2019
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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