Characteristics of Unrecorded Wild Yeasts Obtained from the Soil of Spices Plant Fields and its Physiological Functionality

Sang-Min Han1   Ji-Yoon Kim1   Changmu Kim2   Jong-Soo Lee1,*   

1Department of Biomedicinal Science and Biotechnology, Paichai University
2Microorganism Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources

Abstract

The goal of this study was to characterize unrecorded wild yeasts from soils of spices plants fields and further, to elucidate its anti-demential activities and tyrosinase inhibitory activity. Piskurozyma taiwanensis R4-1 (NIBRFGC000502619), Nadsonia starkeyi-henricii R6-2 (NIBRFGC000502618), and Canadida friedrichii M12-6 (NIBRFGC000502615) isolated from soil of garlic field represented newly recorded yeast strains in Korea. Vishniacozyma peneaus I2-9 (NIBRFGC000502617) and Cryptococcus aspenensis I21-1 (NIBRFGC000502616) from soil of ginger field represented also newly recorded yeast strains, and microbiological characteristics of its fifteen yeast strains were investigated. All of these unrecorded yeasts exhibited oval-global shape and have ascospores except Canadida friedrichii M12-6. Piskurozyma taiwanensis R4-1 and Canadida friedrichii M12-6 grew well in vitamin-free medium, and Piskurozyma taiwanensis R4-1 was halotolent growing in 10% NaCl-containing yeast extract peptone dextrose (YPD) broth. After prepared cell-free of the unrecorded wild yeasts, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inhibitory activities as anti-dementia activity and tyrosinase inhibitory activity as whitening activity were determined. Cell-free extract from Canadida friedrichii M12-6 had the highest tyrosinase inhibitory activity of 14.4%.

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Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree of unrecorded yeasts isolated from the soil of spice plant fields of Geumsan, Chungnam province, Korea, based on the nucleotide sequences of large subunit 26S ribosomal DNA D1/D2 region. The tree was generated by the neighbor-joining method, using MEGA7.