Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
Sang-Min Han, Se-Hee Hyun and Jong-Soo Lee*
Department of Biomedicinal Science and Biotechnology, Paichai University, Daejeon 302-735, Korea
Correspondence to biotech8@pcu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) March 31, 2015, 43(1):47-52.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2015.43.1.47
Received: January 29, 2015; Revised: March 13, 2015; Accepted: March 24, 2015
Published: March 31, 2015.
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Several kinds of yeasts were isolated from wild flowers collected from Muju resort of Deogyu mountain in Korea and identified by comparison of nucleotide sequences of D1/D2 region of 26S rDNA using BLAST. Totally twenty-two strains of eight species were isolated and Cryptococcus magnus (9 strains) and Cryptococcus flavescenes (6 strains) were dominant species. The supernatant and cell-free extracts were prepared and their antioxidant activity, anti-gout xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity and whitening tyrosinase inhibitory activity were investigated. Anti-gout xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities of Sporobolomyces phaffii JS00583 and Rhodotorula graminis JS00581 were 40.4% and 39.1%, respectively and also was 36.1% whitening tyrosinase inhibitory activity in the supernatant of Cryptococcus magnus JS00570.
Deogyu mountain, Isolation, Physiological functionality, Wild flowers, Yeasts