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Scanavachi G, Yoneda JS, Sebinelli HG, Barbosa LRS, Ciancaglini P, Itri R. Photobiomodulation of Na,K-ATPase in native membrane fraction and reconstituted in DPPC:DPPE-liposome. Photochem Photobiol 2024. [PMID: 38922888 DOI: 10.1111/php.13987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 06/11/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
Studies focusing on how photobiomodulation (PBM) can affect the structure and function of proteins are scarce in the literature. Few previous studies have shown that the enzymatic activity of Na,K-ATPAse (NKA) can be photo-modulated. However, the variability of sample preparation and light irradiation wavelengths have not allowed for an unequivocal conclusion about the PBM of NKA. Here, we investigate minimal membrane models containing NKA, namely, native membrane fraction and DPPC:DPPE proteoliposome upon laser irradiation at wavelengths 532, 650, and 780 nm. Interestingly, we show that the PBM on the NKA enzymatic activity has a bell-shaped profile with a stimulation peak (~15% increase) at around 20 J.cm-2 and 6 J.cm-2 for the membrane-bound and the proteoliposome samples, respectively, and are practically wavelength independent. Further, by normalizing the enzymatic activity by the NKA enzyme concentration, we show that the PBM response is related to the protein amount with small influence due to protein's environment. The stimulation decays over time reaching the basal level around 6 h after the irradiation for the three lasers and both NKA samples. Our results demonstrate the potential of using low-level laser therapy to modulate NKA activity, which may have therapeutic implications and benefits.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gustavo Scanavachi
- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IF USP), São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy & Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IF USP), São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy & Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IF USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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Yoneda JS, Sebinelli HG, Itri R, Ciancaglini P. Overview on solubilization and lipid reconstitution of Na,K-ATPase: enzyme kinetic and biophysical characterization. Biophys Rev 2020; 12:49-64. [PMID: 31955383 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00616-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Na,K-ATPase is a membrane protein which plays a vital role. It pumps Na+ and K+ ions across the cellular membranes using energy from ATP hydrolysis, and is responsible for maintaining the osmotic equilibrium and generating the membrane potential. Moreover, Na,K-ATPase has also been involved in cell signaling, interacting with partner proteins. Cardiotonic steroids bind specifically to Na,K-ATPase triggering a number of signaling pathways. Because of its importance, many efforts have been employed to study the structure and function of this protein. Difficulties associated with its removal from natural membranes and the concomitant search for appropriate replacement conditions to keep the protein in solution have presented a challenge that had to be overcome prior to carrying out biophysical and biochemical studies in vitro. In this review, we summarized all of the methods and techniques applied by our group in order to obtain information about Na,K-ATPase in respect to solubilization, reconstitution into mimetic system, influence of lipid composition, stability, oligomerization, and aggregation.
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- Juliana Sakamoto Yoneda
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Rua do Matao, 1371, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-901, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Rua do Matao, 1371, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-901, Brazil
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Sebinelli HG, Borin IA, Ciancaglini P, Bolean M. Topographical and mechanical properties of liposome surfaces harboring Na,K-ATPase by means of atomic force microscopy. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:2737-2745. [PMID: 30868144 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00040b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this study, we obtained unprecedented AFM images of the Na,K-ATPase (NKA) pump after being reconstituted into DPPC and DPPC:DPPE liposomes. The mechanical properties observed in the phase images were associated with protrusions correlated to NKA microdomains, which are the darker areas seen in the AFM phase images. Protrusions in the DPPC-NKA proteoliposomes ranged from 38 to 115 nm, with 74 ± 21 nm diameter and 2.1 ± 1.4 nm height. DPPC:DPPE-NKA proteoliposomes showed protrusions from 21 to 78 nm, with 38 ± 16 nm diameter and 0.7 ± 0.5 nm height. We have estimated the presence of annular lipids in the microdomains considering that the areas of the protrusions should contain αβ oligomers and annular phospholipids. For DPPC-NKA proteoliposomes, we hypothesize that 40 phospholipids surround an (αβ)2 dimer and 46 phospholipids are present for the DPPC:DPPE-NKA proteoliposomes in an αβ monomer. Catalytic activity measurements of both lipid compositions of proteoliposomes harboring NKA provide strong evidence regarding the protein orientation in the biomembrane. AFM data suggest that DPPC-NKA proteoliposomes are also rightside-out protein orientated, where the protrusions have an average height of 2.1 nm, while for DPPC:DPPE-NKA proteoliposomes, the majority of the protein reconstituted should be inside-out orientated, where the protrusions' average height is 0.5 nm. This result corroborates with the enzymatic analysis, where 61% and 91% of the enzymatic activity was recovered, respectively. Thus, a new application of AFM as a tool for the determination of topological features of protrusions in proteoliposomes has been brought to the scientific community, in addition to revealing the distinct catalytic orientation of enzymes present in the biomembranes model.
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- H G Sebinelli
- Universidade de São Paulo, FFCLRP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, FFCLRP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, FFCLRP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, FFCLRP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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González Flecha FL. Kinetic stability of membrane proteins. Biophys Rev 2017; 9:563-572. [PMID: 28921106 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-017-0324-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Although membrane proteins constitute an important class of biomolecules involved in key cellular processes, study of the thermodynamic and kinetic stability of their structures is far behind that of soluble proteins. It is known that many membrane proteins become unstable when removed by detergent extraction from the lipid environment. In addition, most of them undergo irreversible denaturation, even under mild experimental conditions. This process was found to be associated with partial unfolding of the polypeptide chain exposing hydrophobic regions to water, and it was proposed that the formation of kinetically trapped conformations could be involved. In this review, we will describe some of the efforts toward understanding the irreversible inactivation of membrane proteins. Furthermore, its modulation by phospholipids, ligands, and temperature will be herein discussed.
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- F Luis González Flecha
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Laboratorio de Biofísica Molecular, Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Ramos AP, Cruz MAE, Tovani CB, Ciancaglini P. Biomedical applications of nanotechnology. Biophys Rev 2017; 9:79-89. [PMID: 28510082 PMCID: PMC5425815 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-016-0246-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 12/26/2016] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The ability to investigate substances at the molecular level has boosted the search for materials with outstanding properties for use in medicine. The application of these novel materials has generated the new research field of nanobiotechnology, which plays a central role in disease diagnosis, drug design and delivery, and implants. In this review, we provide an overview of the use of metallic and metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon-nanotubes, liposomes, and nanopatterned flat surfaces for specific biomedical applications. The chemical and physical properties of the surface of these materials allow their use in diagnosis, biosensing and bioimaging devices, drug delivery systems, and bone substitute implants. The toxicology of these particles is also discussed in the light of a new field referred to as nanotoxicology that studies the surface effects emerging from nanostructured materials.
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- Ana P Ramos
- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Yang Z, Zhou Q, Mok L, Singh A, Swartz DJ, Urbatsch IL, Brouillette CG. Interactions and cooperativity between P-glycoprotein structural domains determined by thermal unfolding provides insights into its solution structure and function. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2016; 1859:48-60. [PMID: 27783926 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Revised: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Structural changes in mouse P-glycoprotein (Pgp) induced by thermal unfolding were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy to gain insight into the solution conformation(s) of this ABC transporter that may not be apparent from current crystal structures. DSC of reconstituted Pgp showed two thermal unfolding transitions in the absence of MgATP, suggesting that each transition involved the cooperative unfolding of two or more interacting structural domains. A low calorimetric unfolding enthalpy and minimal structural changes were observed, which are hallmarks of the thermal unfolding of α-helical membrane proteins, because generally only the extramembranous regions undergo significant unfolding. Nucleotide binding increased the unfolding temperature of both transitions to the same extent, suggesting that one nucleotide binding domain (NBD) unfolds with each transition. Combined with the results from the two isolated NBDs, we propose that each DSC transition represents the cooperative unfolding of one NBD and the two contacting intracellular loops. Further, the presence of two transitions in both apo and MgATP bound wild-type Pgp suggests the NBD-dimeric conformation is transient, and that Pgp resides predominantly in the crystallographically observed inward-facing conformation with NBDs separated, even under conditions supporting continuous MgATP hydrolysis. In contrast, DSC of the vanadate-trapped MgADP·Pgp complex and the MgATP-bound catalytically inactive mutant, E552A/E1197A, show an additional transition at much higher temperature, corresponding to the unfolding of the nucleotide-trapped NBD-dimeric outward-facing conformation. The collective results indicate a strong preference for an NBD dissociated, inward-facing conformation of Pgp.
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- Zhengrong Yang
- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
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- Center for Structural Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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Yoneda JS, Scanavachi G, Sebinelli HG, Borges JC, Barbosa LRS, Ciancaglini P, Itri R. Multimeric species in equilibrium in detergent-solubilized Na,K-ATPase. Int J Biol Macromol 2016; 89:238-45. [PMID: 27109755 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2016.04.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2016] [Revised: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In this work, we find an equilibrium between different Na,K-ATPase (NKA) oligomeric species solubilized in a non-ionic detergent C12E8 by means of Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Analytical Ultracentrifugation (AUC), Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), Spectrophotometry (absorption at 280/350nm) and enzymatic activity assay. The NKA sample after chromatography purification presented seven different populations as identified by AUC, with monomers and tetramers amounting to ∼55% of the total protein mass in solution. These two species constituted less than 40% of the total protein mass after increasing the NKA concentration. Removal of higher-order oligomer/aggregate species from the NKA solution using 220nm-pore filter resulted in an increase of the specific enzymatic activity. Nevertheless, the enzyme forms new large aggregates over an elapsed time of 20h. The results thus point out that C12E8-solubilized NKA is in a dynamic equilibrium of monomers, tetramers and high-order oligomers/subunit aggregates. These latter have low or null activity. High amount of detergent leads to the dissociation of NKA into smaller aggregates with no enzymatic activity.
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- Juliana Sakamoto Yoneda
- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, IF USP, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil; Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, FFCLRP USP, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, IF USP, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, FFCLRP USP, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Química de São Carlos, IQSC-USP, 13560-970 São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, IF USP, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, FFCLRP USP, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, IF USP, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil.
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Yang Z, Brouillette CG. A Guide to Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Membrane and Soluble Proteins in Detergents. Methods Enzymol 2016; 567:319-58. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2015.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Yoneda JS, Rigos CF, de Lourenço TFA, Sebinelli HG, Ciancaglini P. Na,K-ATPase reconstituted in ternary liposome: the presence of cholesterol affects protein activity and thermal stability. Arch Biochem Biophys 2014; 564:136-41. [PMID: 25286376 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2014.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2014] [Revised: 09/12/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was applied to investigate the effect of cholesterol on the thermotropic properties of the lipid membrane (DPPC and DPPE). The thermostability and unfolding of solubilized and reconstituted Na,K-ATPase in DPPC:DPPE:cholesterol-liposomes was also studied to gain insight into the role of cholesterol in the Na,K-ATPase modulation of enzyme function and activity. The tertiary system (DPPC:DPPE:cholesterol) (molar ratio DPPC:DPPE equal 1:1) when cholesterol content was increased from 0% up to 40% results in a slight decrease in the temperature of transition and enthalpy, and an increase in width. We observed that, without heating treatment, at 37°C, the activity was higher for 20mol% cholesterol. However, thermal inactivation experiments showed that the enzyme activity loss time depends on the cholesterol membrane content. The unfolding of the enzyme incorporated to liposomes of DPPC:DPPE (1:1mol) with different cholesterol contents, ranging from 0% to 40% mol was also studied by DSC. Some differences between the thermograms indicate that the presence of lipids promotes a conformational change in protein structure and this change is enough to change the way Na,K-ATPase thermally unfolds.
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Affiliation(s)
- Juliana Sakamoto Yoneda
- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - FFCLRP-USP, Depto. Química, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - FFCLRP-USP, Depto. Química, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - FFCLRP-USP, Depto. Química, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - FFCLRP-USP, Depto. Química, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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