Sang-Min Han 1, Ji-Yoon Kim 1, Changmu Kim 2, Jong-Soo Lee 1,*
1Department of Biomedicinal Science and Biotechnology, Paichai University, Daejeon 35345, Korea
2Microorganism Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Republic
of Korea
Correspondence to biotech8@pcu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) March, 2019, 47(1):75-81.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM20190009
Accepted: January 15, 2019; Revised: January 9, 2019; Received: November 26, 2018
Published: March, 2019.
© 2019 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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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%.
Physiological functionality, Soil, Spice plant field, Unrecorded wild yeasts