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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 87-92 |
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Is moderation of protease production an adaptation of well-defined anthropization in dermatophytes?
S Gokulshankar1, AJA Ranjitsingh2, G Venkatesan2, MS Ranjith3, GS Vijayalakshmi4, M Prabhamanju5, S Subashini6
1 Faculty of Medicine, AIMST University, Malaysia
2 Department of Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology, Sri Paramakalyani College, Malaysia
3 School of Medicine, AIMST University, Malaysia
4 Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, M S University, Alwarkurichi, India
5 R & D Center, Mikasa Cosmetics Limited, Chennai, India
6 Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India
Correspondence Address:
S Gokulshankar
Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, AIMST University, Jalan Bedong, Semeling 08100, Kedah
Malaysia
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DOI: 10.4103/0377-4929.59191
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The protease activity of different isolates of dermatophytes representing different ecological groups namely geophilic, zoopahilic and anthropophilic, in their vegetative and sporulation growth phases were compared. Unlike their geophilic and zoophilic counterparts, all the isolates of anthropophilic dermatophytes viz. Trichophyton rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, T. tonsurans, T. violaceum and Epidermophyton floccosum recorded reduced protease activity during artificially induced sporulation phase in comparison to their vegetative growth phase. Even among the anthropophilic group, a classical moderation of protease activity was recorded in Trichyphyton rubrum which also correlates to its clinical manifestation. This enzyme moderation could also be an evolutionary adaptation of the anthropization of these species |
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