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- Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial diversity in Korean traditional wheat-based nuruk
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Jyotiranjan Bal , Suk-Hyun Yun , Myoung-Suk Choi , Soo-Hwan Yeo , Jung-Mi Kim , Dae-Hyuk Kim
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J. Microbiol. 2015;53(12):812-819. Published online December 2, 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-015-5516-3
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The emerging global importance of Korea’s alcoholic beverages
emphasizes the need for quality enhancement of nuruk,
a traditional Korean cereal starter that is used extensively in
traditional brewing. Apart from fungi and yeasts, bacteria
known to be ubiquitously present are also a part of the nuruk
ecosystem and are known to influence fermentation activity
by influencing fermentation favorable factors. In the current
study, bacterial diversity and temporal variations in the traditional
wheat-based nuruk, fermented at two representative
temperature conditions for 30 days, along with two commercial
wheat-based nuruk samples for comparison analysis were
evaluated using libraries of PCR amplicons and 454 pyrosequencing
targeting of the hypervariable regions V1 to V3
of the 16S rRNA gene. A total of 90,836 16S reads were analyzed
and assigned to a total of 314, 321, and 141 Operational
Taxonomic Units (OTUs) for nuruk A, B, and C, respectively.
Diversity parameters clearly indicated nuruk B to
be more diverse in terms of bacterial composition than nuruk
A. Taxonomic assignments indicated that nuruk A was dominated
by phylum Cyanobacteria, whereas nuruk B was
dominated by phylum Actinobacteria. For both nuruk A and
B, members of the phylum Firmicutes mostly converged into
the family Bacillaceae; these microorganisms might be present
in negligible numbers at the beginning but became significant
as the fermentation progressed. The commercial samples
were predominated by phylum Firmicutes, which is composed
of Lactobacillaceae and Leoconostocaceae. The findings
of this study provide new insights into understanding
the changes in bacterial community structure during traditional
nuruk starter production.
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Jyotiranjan Bal , Suk-Hyun Yun , Ha-Yeon Song , Soo-Hwan Yeo , Jae Hyun Kim , Jung-Mi Kim , Dae-Hyuk Kim
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J. Microbiol. 2014;52(12):1025-1029. Published online November 29, 2014
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-014-4620-0
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The growing popularity of traditional Korean alcoholic beverages
has led to a demand for quality enhancement of the
traditional starter culture nuruk, which consists primarily
of wheat. Therefore, this study focused on mycoflora characterization
and the temporal variations in traditional wheatbased
nuruks fermented at two representative traditional temperature
conditions for 30 days. Nuruk A was fermented at a
constant temperature of 36°C for 30 days and nuruk B was
fermented at a high initial temperature of 45°C for 10 days
followed by 35°C for 20 days. The average mycoflora load in
the two different nuruk conditions did not vary significantly
between the 0 and 30 day cultures, and a maximum load of
8.39 log CFU/g was observed for nuruk A on culture day 3
and 7.87 log CFU/g for nuruk B on culture day 30. Within two
samples, pH was negatively correlated with temporal changes
in mycoflora load. The pH of nuruk A was significantly lower
than that of nuruk B at all of the time points evaluated. Culture-
dependent characterization led to the identification of
55 fungal isolates belonging to 9 genera and 15 species, with
the most prominent genera comprising Lichtheimia, Penicillium,
Trametes, Aspergillus, Rhizomucor, and Mucor. A total
of 25 yeast isolates were characterized belonging to 6 genera
and 7 species, the most prominent among which were Rhodotorula,
Pichia, Debaryomyces, Saccharomycopsis, and Torulospora.
Mycofloral community dynamics analysis revealed
that both samples A and B varied considerably with respect
to the fungal communities over a span of 30 days.
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Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), which is secreted on the
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of its physiological activity. The FISH assay also revealed
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control or WGA-H-treated roots. The results indicated that
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