Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
Se-Hee Hyun, Sang-Min Han and Jong-Soo Lee*
Department of Biomedicinal Science and Bioechnology, Paichai University, Daejeon, 302-735, Korea
Correspondence to biotech8@pcu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) September 30, 2014, 42(3):201-206.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2014.42.3.201
Received: September 4, 2014; Revised: September 18, 2014; Accepted: September 22, 2014
Published: September 30, 2014.
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Sixty one yeast strains of 21 species were isolated from wild flowers in Gogunsanyeoldo, including Seonyudo of Jeollabuk-do, Korea, and identified by comparison of nucleotide sequences for PCR-amplified D1/D2 region of 26S rDNA using BLAST. Among them, Cryptococcus sp. including C. aureus SY1-4 were found to be dominant, and Metschnikowia sp. including M. reukaufii SY20-1 and Rhodotnula sp. such as R. ingeniosa SY1-1 were also abundantly isolated. Some physiological functionalities of the culture broth and cell-free extracts from 61 yeast strains were determined. Supernatant from Metschnilowia reukaufii SY44-6 showed anti-gout xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity of 49.6% and whitening tyrosinase inhibitory activity of 38.4%, respectively.
Flowers, Gogunsanyeoldo, Isolation, Physiological functioinality, Yeasts