title: Superoxide dismutase in Cryptococcus neoformans varieties gattii, grubi, and neoformans.
abstract: Some clear dissimilarities occur among the varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans but there are few studies about the differences among individual yeast antioxidant enzymes. The total superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities and the copper, zinc-depend SOD (Cu,ZnSOD) and manganese-dependent SOD (MnSOD) isoenzymes of five reference C. neoformans strains belonged to A, B, C, AD and D serotypes (Table I) and other nine C. neoformans isolates (Table II) were determined. There were significant differences (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05) in total SOD activity among the varietie gattii (serotype C) and the other varieties. Cu,ZnSOD showed difference (p < 0.05) between A and D serotypes. These results point out a variety and serotype-independent SOD activity in C. neoformans reference strains and the other isolates that were evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas II, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: A L T
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: M R P L
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Brigagão
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Colepicolo
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Siqueira
authors.forename: E G da
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Paula
mesh_terms: D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D012703:Serotyping; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D013482:Superoxide Dismutase