10 results on '"Ariana Posadaz"'
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2. Evaluation of antibacterial and antibiofilm properties of Minthostachys verticillata essential oils against bovine Staphylococcus aureus strains
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Melina Vanesa Moliva, Laura Noelia Cariddi, Estefanía Raquel Pereyra, José María Raviolo, Nicolás Sambuceti, Ariana Posadaz, Noelia Anahí Campra, and Elina Beatriz Reinoso
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Bioengineering ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Food Science ,Biotechnology - Published
- 2023
3. Dynamics of Polyphenol Biosynthesis by Calli Cultures, Suspension Cultures and Wild Specimens of the Medicinal Plant
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María Valeria, Ricco, Martín León, Bari, Alejandra Vanina, Catalano, Paula, López, Cecilia Beatriz, Dobrecky, Sergio Adrián, Teves, Ariana, Posadaz, Melina, Laguia Becher, Rafael Alejandro, Ricco, Marcelo Luis, Wagner, and María Alejandra, Álvarez
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dedifferentiated cultures ,secondary metabolites ,phenolics ,flavonoids ,food and beverages ,mistletoe ,antioxidant capacity ,hydroxycinnamic acids ,hemiparasite ,Article ,condensed tannins - Abstract
Ligaria cuneifolia (R. et P.) Tiegh. (Loranthaceae) is a South American hemiparasitic species with antioxidant, antitumoral, antimicrobial, and antilipidemic activities attributed to its polyphenolic content. We studied the polyphenolic pattern of L. cuneifolia during different phenological stages: flowering, fruiting, and post-fruiting. The highest total phenolic content was found in stems at post-fruiting (214 ± 12.1 mg gallic acid eq·g−1 DW) and fruiting (209 ± 13.7 mg gallic acid eq·g−1 DW), followed by post-fruiting leaves (207 ± 17.5 mg gallic acid eq·g−1 DW). Flavonoids accumulated at higher levels in leaves and hydroxycinnamic acids in leaves at flowering and post-fruiting. The polyphenolic pattern was similar between organs from wild plants and in vitro cultures, although at a significantly lower level in the latter ones. The performance of calli growing under a 16 h photoperiod in a modified White medium with 1-naphthalene acetic acid (2.50 μM) and Kinetin (9.20 μM) was better than in the dark. When calli grew in media only with auxins (IAA, NAA, and 2,4-D, all at 2.50 µM concentration), its growth and polyphenolic content improved. Cell suspensions with 2.50 µM NAA and 9.20 µM KIN grew slowly and produced very small amounts of polyphenols. As for the antioxidant activity, it was detected in all samples (approximately 1000 µmol trolox eq·g−1 DW) except fruits, where a lower value was found (328 µmol trolox eq·g−1 DW). In vitro cultures have the lowest antioxidant activity when compared to methanolic extracts from organs of wild specimens. Finally, antimutagenic or mutagenic activity in wild plants and in vitro culture extracts was not detected by the Ames test.
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- 2021
4. A Kinetic Study of the Photodynamic Effect on Tryptophan Methyl Ester and Tryptophan Octyl Ester in DOPC Vesicles
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N. Mariano Correa, Ariana Posadaz, Norman A. García, and M. Alicia Biasutti
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Photolysis ,Photosensitizing Agents ,Aqueous solution ,Quenching (fluorescence) ,Vesicle ,Lipid Bilayers ,Photodissociation ,Tryptophan ,Phospholipid ,Water ,General Medicine ,Biochemistry ,Medicinal chemistry ,Kinetics ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Reaction rate constant ,chemistry ,Phosphatidylcholines ,Rose bengal ,Organic chemistry ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry - Abstract
The photodynamic effect on tryptophan methyl ester (trpME) and tryptophan octyl ester (trpOE), using the O(2)((1)Delta(g))-photosensitizers Rose Bengal (RB) and Perinaphthenone (PN) has been studied in large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) of the phospholipid 1,2-di-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (DOPC) by stationary photolysis and time-resolved methods. This work reports on the influence of both the site (O(2)((1)Delta(g))) generation and the location of the tryptophan derivatives (trpD), on the photo-oxidation process in a compartmentalized system. The apparent rate constant values for chemical quenching of O(2)((1)Delta(g)) by trpOE (k(r,app)), was higher in vesicles than in water. Also, the ratio between apparent reactive and overall rate constant values for the deactivation of O(2)((1)Delta(g)) (k(r,app)/k(t,app)), increases in vesicles as compared with water, when the oxidative species is generated in the lipidic region or at the interface. Nevertheless, this quotient is lower than the corresponding value in water when O(2)((1)Delta(g)) is generated in the aqueous pseudophase. For trpME, the k(r,app)/k(t,app)values in vesicles and in water are quite similar, confirming the fact that trpME is located in the water pseudophase. Results are discussed in terms of relative protection against O(2)((1)Delta(g)) attack in a microheterogeneous medium as compared with water.
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- 2010
5. Rose Bengal-Sensitized Photooxidation of the Dipeptides l-Tryptophyl-l-Phenylalanine, l-Tryptophyl-l-Tyrosine and l-Tryptophyl-l-Tryptophan: Kinetics, Mechanism and Photoproducts¶
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Norman A. García, Francisco Amat-Guerri, Ariana Posadaz, Jesús Sanz, Alicia Biasutti, and Cesar H. Casale
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Rose Bengal ,Quenching (fluorescence) ,Light ,Stereochemistry ,Tryptophan ,Phenylalanine ,Dipeptides ,General Medicine ,Chemical reaction ,Biochemistry ,Amino acid ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Reaction rate constant ,chemistry ,Luminescent Measurements ,Rose bengal ,Peptide bond ,Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Oxidation-Reduction - Abstract
The Rose Bengal-sensitized photooxidations of the dipeptides l-tryptophyl-l-phenylalanine (Trp-Phe), l-tryptophyl-l-tyrosine (Trp-Tyr) and l-tryptophyl-l-tryptophan (Trp-Trp) have been studied in pH 7 water solution using static photolysis and time-resolved methods. Kinetic results indicate that the tryptophan (Trp) moiety interacts with singlet molecular oxygen (O(2)((1)Delta(g))) both through chemical reaction and through physical quenching, and that the photooxidations can be compared with those of equimolecular mixtures of the corresponding free amino acids, with minimum, if any, influence of the peptide bond on the chemical reaction. This is not a common behavior in other di- and polypeptides of photooxidizable amino acids. The ratio between chemical (k(r)) and overall (k(t)) rate constants for the interaction O(2)((1)Delta(g))-dipeptide indicates that Trp-Phe and Trp-Trp are good candidates to suffer photodynamic action, with k(r)/k(t) values of 0.72 and 0.60, respectively (0.65 for free Trp). In the case of Trp-Tyr, a lower k(r)/k(t) value (0.18) has been found, likely as a result of the high component of physical deactivation of O(2)((1)Delta(g)) by the tyrosine moiety. The analysis of the photooxidation products shows that the main target for O(2)((1)Delta(g)) attack is the Trp group and suggests a much lower accumulation of kynurenine-type products, as compared with free Trp. This is possibly because of the occurrence of another accepted alternative pathway of oxidation that gives rise to 3a-oxidized hydrogenated pyrrolo[2,3-b]indoles.
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- 2007
6. The activity of 3- and 7-hydroxyflavones as scavengers of superoxide radical anion generated from photo-excited riboflavin
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Nora B. Debattista, Sonia G. Bertolotti, Nora B. Pappano, Paulina Montaña, Norman A. García, Vicente Avila, and Ariana Posadaz
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Chemistry ,Excited state ,Superoxide radical ,Organic Chemistry ,Riboflavin ,General Chemistry ,Irradiation ,Photochemistry ,Catalysis ,Ion - Abstract
The visible-light irradiation of the system Rivoflavin plus 3-hydroxyflavone or plus 7-hydroxyflavone, under aerobic conditions, produces a series of competitive processes that depend on the relative concentrations of the pigment and the flavones. The picture comprises photochemical mechanisms that potentially operate in nature. They mainly include the quenching of Rf singlet (1Rf*) and triplet (3Rf*) excited states (with bimolecular rate constants in the order of 109 M1 s1) and superoxide radical anion-mediated reactions. The participation of the oxidative species singlet molecular oxygen was not detected. The overall result shows chemical transformations in both Rf and 3-hydroxyflavone. No experimental evidence was found indicating any chemical reaction involving 7-hydroxyflavone. The fate of the pigment also depends on the amount of the dissolved flavonoid. At 50 mM concentrations of these compounds or higher, practically no photochemistry occurs, owing to the extensive quenching of 1Rf*. When the concentration of the flavones is in the mM range or lower, 3Rf* is photogenerated. Then, the excited triplet species can be quenched mainly by the flavones through an electron-transfer process, yielding the semireduced pigment. The latter interacts with dissolved oxygen producing O2·, which reacts with both the pigment and 3-hydroxyflavone. In summary, 3-hydroxyflavone and 7-hydroxyflavone participate in the generation of superoxide ion in an Rf-sensitized process, and simultaneously 3-hydroxyflavone constitutes a degradable quencher of the oxidative species.Key words: flavones, riboflavin, sensitization, singlet molecular oxygen, superoxide radical anion.
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- 2003
7. A comparative kinetic study on the singlet molecular oxygen-mediated photoxidation of α- and β-chymotrypsins
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Norman A. García, M. A. Biasutti, and Ariana Posadaz
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Xanthene ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Chymotrypsin ,Quenching (fluorescence) ,biology ,Superoxide ,Tryptophan ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Photochemistry ,Biochemistry ,Oxygen ,Amino acid ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Endocrinology ,Reaction rate constant ,chemistry ,biology.protein - Abstract
Kinetic aspects of the sensitized photooxidation of alpha- and beta-chymotrypsins have been studied at pH 6 and 8. The sensitization, employing classical O2(1Deltag)-photogenerators, such as xanthene dyes, is a kinetically intricate process because of the presence of ground state dye-protein associations and to the simultaneous participation of superoxide ion and singlet molecular oxygen [O2(1Deltag)]. Both proteins, that possess the same distribution pattern of photooxidizable amino acids, suffer a pure O2(1Deltag)-mediated photodynamic attack, using the carbonylic sensitizer Perinaphthenone. Overall and reactive rate constants for the O2(1Deltag)-quenching (in the order of 108 and 107/M/s, respectively), and rates of oxygen consumption determined by time-resolved, spectroscopic and polarographic methods indicate that alpha- and beta-chymotrypsins are less photooxidizable at pH 6, as a result of an enhancement of the O2(1Deltag)-physical quenching component. In general terms, beta-chymotrypsin exhibits the greater overall proclivity to interact with O2(1Deltag), whereas structural factors, possibly evidenced by a higher exposure of the reactive tryptophan residues, impart an increased photooxidation degree to the proteins at pH 8, specially to the alpha-chymotrypsin.
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- 2003
8. Modelling the natural photodegradation of water contaminants
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Sonia G. Bertolotti, Francisco Amat-Guerri, Adriana Pajares, Guillermo Stettler, Norman A. García, Ariana Posadaz, Susana Criado, and José Gianotti
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Aqueous solution ,Chemistry ,Superoxide ,General Chemical Engineering ,Photodissociation ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,General Chemistry ,Photochemistry ,Oxygen ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Reaction rate constant ,Rose bengal ,Flash photolysis ,Photodegradation - Abstract
Within our current studies on the natural photodegradation of representative aquatic environmental contaminants, the visible light irradiation of the model compound 4-hydroxypyridine (4-OHP), in air-equilibrated aqueous solution and in the presence of riboflavin (Rf), has been studied employing stationary photolysis, polarographic detection of oxygen uptake, stationary and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, and laser flash photolysis. The results indicate that 4-OHP — a compound inert towards the attack of singlet molecular oxygen (O2(1Δg)) generated by Rose Bengal sensitization — quenches excited singlet and triplet states of Rf, with rate constants of 2.4×10 9 M −1 s −1 and 1.2×10 7 M −1 s −1 , respectively. The photodecomposition of Rf, a known process taking place from triplet Rf, has been found to depend on the concentration of dissolved 4-OHP: at ≥20 mM limited photodecomposition occurs due to the quenching of excited singlet Rf, while at ca. 5 mM triplet Rf is photogenerated and subsequently quenched either by oxygen, giving rise to O2(1Δg), or by 4-OHP, yielding semireduced Rf through an electron transfer process. Superoxide dismutase inhibition of the oxygen uptake and flash photolysis data indicate that superoxide anion is generated, likely by the reaction of the anion radical from Rf with dissolved oxygen, also yielding neutral, ground state Rf. The final result is that both 4-OHP and Rf are photodegraded, probably through oxidation with superoxide anion.
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- 2001
9. Riboflavin and rose bengal sensitised photooxidation of sulfathiazole and succinylsulfathiazoleKinetic study and microbiological implications
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M.I. Gutiérrez, Norman A. García, Sonia G. Bertolotti, M. Calderón, Eduardo I. Sánchez, M. A. Biasutti, and Ariana Posadaz
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Aqueous solution ,Chemistry ,Process Chemistry and Technology ,General Chemical Engineering ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Riboflavin ,Photochemistry ,Oxygen ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,medicine ,Rose bengal ,Singlet state ,Succinylsulfathiazole ,Triplet state ,Photodegradation ,medicine.drug - Abstract
In the presence of the synthetic xanthenic dye rose bengal or the pigment riboflavin, the bacteriostatics sulfathiazole (STZ) and succinylsulfathiazole (SCSTZ) suffer visible-light promoted degradation in dilute aqueous and aqueous-ethanolic solutions. The events occur to a different extent, depending on the chemical structures of the thiazoles and pH of the medium. The photo-oxidation process is accompanied by a partial loss of the antibacterial activity of the thiazoles. The extent of photodegradation occurs quickly under alkaline conditions and is less aggressive in the physiological pH region, although not negligible in kinetic terms. Photo-oxidation quantum efficiencies, evaluated through singlet molecular oxygen [O2 1 Δ g ] phosphorescence detection, spectrophotometric and polarographic methods, range from 0.002 to 0.31 as the upper limit in alkaline media. With rose bengal as a sensitiser in aqueous medium, photo-oxidation essentially proceeds via singlet molecular oxygen. The results indicate the occurrence of several photoprocesses that involve a series of competitive reactions, including singlet molecular oxygen photo-oxidation, when the vitamin riboflavin was employed as a sensitiser, in a 1:1 water: ethanol medium. Their relative importance depends on the concentration of the thiazoles and riboflavin. The bacteriostatics efficiently quench both the excited singlet and triplet states of the pigment. The final result of the interactions is the phototransformation of the thiazoles and the partial photostabilization of riboflavin. The O2 1 Δ g -mediated photo-oxidation of STZ produces a decrease in its bacteriostatic properties.
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- 2000
10. Rose Bengal-Sensitized Photooxidation of the Dipeptides Trp-Phe, Trp-Tyr and Trp-Trp. Kinetics, Mechanism and Photoproducts
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Cesar H. Casale, Ariana Posadaz, Norman A. García, Francisco Amat-Guerri, Alicia Biasutti, and Jesús Sanz
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chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Stereochemistry ,Kinetics ,Rose bengal ,General Medicine ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Biochemistry - Published
- 2004
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