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MYCOPATHOLOGIA
卷 150, 期 1, 页码 1-4出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010868223582
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enzymatic activity; yeasts; Cryptococcus; API-ZYM system
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The extracellular enzymatic activity of 36 strains of yeast belonging to 11 species of the genus Cryptococcus, has been investigated, using the API-ZYM (BioMerieux, France) commercial system, with the objective of determining the differences in the enzymatic profiles of the various species. The strains studied were : 9 of C. neoformans, 7 of C. albidus, 6 of C. laurentii, 5 of C. uniguttulatus, 3 of C. humicolus, and 1 each of C. ater, C. curvatus, C. dimennae, C. hungaricus, C. infirmo-miniatus and C. magnus. All the strains showed enzymatic activity with positivity to Phosphatase alkaline, Esterase lipase C8, Leucine arylamidase, Phosphatase acid and Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, and negativity to Lipase C14, Trypsin, Chemotrypsin, beta -galactosidase, beta -glucuronidase and alpha -manosidase. Variable enzymatic activity was shown to Esterase C4, Valine arylamidase, Cystine arylamidase, alpha -galactosidase, alpha -glucosidase, beta -glucosidase, N-acetyl-beta -glucosaminidase and alpha -fucosidase. This allowed 11 separate enzymatic patterns to be established. The species C. neoformans and C. laurentii each presented two distinct patterns; C. uniguttulatus, C. hungaricus and C. magnus shared the same pattern; C. albidus, C. ater, C. curvatus, C. dimennae, C. humicolus and C. infirmo-miniatus presented an individual enzymatic pattern. The results obtained suggest that the API-ZYM system could be useful for the identification of species of the genus Cryptococcus and for the differentiation of the enzymotypes for epidemiological purposes.
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