Isolation and Tyrosinase Inhibitory Activity of Wild Yeasts Obtained from Soil in the Fields of Medicinal Plants, Ginseng and Korean Angelica

 김지윤    한상민    이종수*   

1Department of Biomedicinal Science and Biotechnology, Paichai University, Daejeon 35345, Korea

Abstract

The goal of this study was to isolate wild yeasts from the fields of medicinal plants and investigate its tyrosinase inhibitory activities. Wild yeasts isolated from soil in the ginseng and Korean angelica fields of Geumsan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea were identified by comparing the nucleotide sequences of the D1/D2 domain of 26S rDNA. In total, 43 yeast strains belonging to 21 species were isolated from 50 soil samples obtained from two medicinal plant fields. From the ginseng field, six strains of Rhodotorula glutinis and four strains of Sampaiozyma ingeniosa were isolated, out of which Rhodotorula glutinis strains were dominant. In the Korean angelica field, six strains of Cyberlindnera saturnus, three strains of Piskurozyma taiwanensis, and three strains of Saitozyma podzolica were isolated, out of which Cyberlindnera saturnus strains were dominant. We prepared cell-free extracts of the isolated wild yeasts and their tyrosinase inhibitory activities were investigated. Among 43 yeast strains, cell-free extracts of Naganishia globosa G1-7 showed the highest tyrosinase inhibitory activity (28.0%).

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Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree of wild yeasts from ginseng field and Korean angelica field of Geumsan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea based on the nucleotide sequences of large subunit 28S ribosomal DNA. The tree was generated by the neighbor-joining method, using MEGA7.