Article
Genetic characterization of morphologically variant strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Registro en:
BORBA, Cintia de Moraes; et al. Genetic characterization of morphologically variant strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, v.103, n.3, p.306-309, May 2008.
0074-0276
1678-8060
Autor
Borba, Cintia de Moraes
Correia, Janaina
Vinhas, Ester
Martins, Albert
Alves, Beatriz Costa Aguiar
Unkles, Sheila
Kinghorn, James Robertson
Silva, Norma Lucena
Resumen
Molecular characterization of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis variant strains that had been preserved under
mineral oil for decades was carried out by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD). On P. brasiliensis variants in the transitional phase and strains with typical morphology, RAPD produced reproducible polymorphic amplification products that differentiated them. A dendrogram based on the generated RAPD patterns placed the 14
P. brasiliensis strains into five groups with similarity coefficients of 72%. A high correlation between the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of the strains was observed. A 750 bp-RAPD fragment found only in the wild-type phenotype strains was cloned and sequenced. Genetic similarity analysis using BLASTx suggested that this RAPD marker represents a putative domain of a hypothetical flavin-binding monooxygenase (FMO)-like protein of Neurospora crassa.