Title
Determination of hyaluronidase activity in Tityus spp. Scorpion venoms and its inhibition by Brazilian antivenoms
Date Issued
01 September 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Guerra-Duarte C.
Rebello Horta C.C.
Ribeiro Oliveira-Mendes B.B.
de Freitas Magalhães B.
Costal-Oliveira F.
Stransky S.
Fonseca de Freitas C.
Campolina D.
Pereira de Oliveira Pardal P.
Lira-da-Silva R.
Machado de Ávila R.A.
Kalapothakis E.
Departamentos de Biologia Geral
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Hyaluronidases (HYALs) are enzymes ubiquitously found in venoms from diverse animals and seem to be related to venom spreading. HYAL activity might be important to Tityus spp. envenoming, since anti-Tityus serrulatus HYAL (TsHYAL) rabbit antibodies neutralize T. serrulatus venom (TsV) lethality. The present work aimed to verify and compare HYAL activity of venoms from other Brazilian Tityus spp. (Tityus bahiensis, Tityus stigmurus and Tityus obscurus) and to test whether anti-TsHYAL antibodies and Brazilian horse therapeutic scorpion antivenom (produced by Fundação Ezequiel Dias (FUNED), Butantan and Vital Brazil Institutes) can recognize and inhibit HYAL activity from these venoms. In ELISA assays, anti-TsHYAL and scorpion antivenoms recognized T. serrulatus, T. bahiensis and T. stigmurus venoms, however, they demonstrated weaker reaction with T. obscurus, which was also observed in Western blotting assay. Epitope mapping by SPOT assay revealed different binding patterns for each antivenom. The assay showed a weaker binding of scorpion antivenom produced by FUNED to peptides recognized by anti-TsHYAL antibodies. Anti-TsHYAL antibodies and antivenoms produced by Butantan and Vital Brazil institutes inhibited HYAL activity of all tested venoms in vitro, whereas FUNED antivenom did not show the same property. These results call attention to the importance of hyaluronidase inhibition, that can aid the improvement of antivenom production.
Start page
134
End page
143
Volume
167
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Toxicología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85068072916
PubMed ID
Source
Toxicon
ISSN of the container
00410101
Sponsor(s)
This research was supported by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio r, Brazil - CAPES (TOXINOLOGIA N o 23038000825/2011-63 ) and CAPES-COFECUB (No 88881.191812/2018–01 ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil and by funds of the INCTTOX PROGRAM and Universal Ed. (No 406163/2018-9 ) of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil (CNPq).
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