Objective: Ice and frozen soil resources are very abundant in our country, but development research on cold-adapted microorganisms is still relatively backward, the domestic research in psychrophilic yeast is rare. As global warming, glaciers degraded with each passing year, study of psychrophile is around the corner. Yeasts are probably one of the most relevant microbial groups in both traditional fermentation technologies and biotechnological applications.And compared with bacteria, yeast can adapt to the low temperature environment much better. Some unique features of cold-adapted yeast have excellent application prospect in biology, medicine, washing and food industry. This paper aims to study the enzyme production features, biodiversity and ecological distribution pattern of the cold-adapted yeasts in different habitats by using molecular biology techniques and statistical methods, in basis of understanding the phenotype, physiological and biochemical characteristics of cold-adapted yeasts. In order to reveal the ecological significance of cold-adapted yeasts in cold habitats of Glacier No.1 in the Tianshan Mountains, and also provide basic information for bioprospecting in cold-adapted yeasts resources and their application in food industry.
Methods: In this experiment, four kinds of culture medium RB, DG, MEA, YEPG were used for isolating cold-adapted yeasts from 6 different habitats of Glacier No.1 in the Tianshan Mountains; The ecological distribution pattern, biodiversity and evolutionary relationship between yeast species were determinied according to the physiological and biochemical characteristics, MSP-PCR fingerprint and analysis of ITS rRNA sequences. The ability of yeasts synthesizing extracellular enzymes were tested using the culture mediums with different substrates.
Conclusion: A total of 629 strains were isolated by using four kinds of culture medium from 6 different habitats of Glacier No. 1 in the Tianshan Mountains. Among which, 152 from the supraglacial meltwater, 96 from the subglacial sediments, 96 from the water collected from puddles in the vicinity of the glacier, 78 from cryoconites; and the largest number of yeast strains were obtained from supraglacial snow, a total of 182 strains; yeasts in subglacial meltwater were the least, from which only 25 yeast strains were isolated.
Aalysis of the ITS rRNA gene sequences show that, the 629 yeast strains mainly belong to Cryptococcus, Cystofilobasidium, Dioszegia, Filobasidium, Leucosporidium, Leucosporidiella, Microbotryum, Schizonella, Mrakia, Mrakiella, Rhodotorula, Sporidiobolus, Sporobolomyce, Tilletiopsi, Udeniomyce, Aureobasidium, Candida, Hanseniaspora, Pichia, Yarrowia and Lecythophora, a total of 21 genus, 51 species. The number of Cryptococcus yeasts was the most, and for 46.5% of the yeasts were Cryptococcus. The number of Candida yeasts was less than the number of Cryptococcus. Species of Cryptococcus victoriae and Candida akabanensis were the most abundant yeast species, and they were widely distributed, and they were the dominant yeast species in glacial habitats. The species relative abundance of cold-adapted yeasts in snow was the highest, and in which it had a good biodiversity. And a very low species dominance was observed in subglacial meltwater.
The physiological and biochemical experiments show that most of the yeast strains were psychrotolerant. Their growth temperature ranged from 8 to 25℃; Only a minority of the yeasts optimum growth temperature were ranging from 12 to 16℃, and they were identified as psychrophilic yeasts. NaCl tolerance experiments found that most of the yeasts stopped growing when the concen
Objective: Ice and frozen soil resources are very abundant in our country, but development research on cold-adapted microorganisms is still relatively backward, the domestic research in psychrophilic yeast is rare. As global warming, glaciers degraded with each passing year, study of psychrophile is around the corner. Yeasts are probably one of the most relevant microbial groups in both traditional fermentation technologies and biotechnological applications.And compared with bacteria, yeast can adapt to the low temperature environment much better. Some unique features of cold-adapted yeast have excellent application prospect in biology, medicine, washing and food industry. This paper aims to study the enzyme production features, biodiversity and ecological distribution pattern of the cold-adapted yeasts in different habitats by using molecular biology techniques and statistical methods, in basis of