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ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 105, Issue 3, Pages 471-480Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-0098-8
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Yamadazyma ubonensis sp nov.; Xylitol-producing yeast; Ascomycete yeast; New yeast species; Thailand
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- Thailand Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (TGIST) [TGIST-01-53-038]
- Higher Education Research Promotion and National Research University Project of Thailand, Office of the Higher Commission, Thailand
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Three hundred and thirty-seven xylose-utilizing yeast strains were isolated from various natural samples. Among these, 68 strains produced xylitol in the range of 0.1-0.69 g xylitol/g xylose. Thirty-nine xylitol-producing strains were identified to be Candida tropicalis. Ten strains were found belonging to 14 known species in the genus Candida, Cyberlindnera, Meyerozyma, Pichia, Wickerhamomyces, Yamadazyma and Cryptococcus. Two strains were identified to be two Candida species and two strains (DMKU-XE142(T) and DMKU-XE332) were found to be a novel species. Strain DMKU-XE142(T) was isolated from tree bark and DMKU-XE332 was obtained from decaying plant leaf collected in Thailand. On the basis of morphological, biochemical, physiological and chemotaxonomic characteristics and sequence analysis of the D1/D2 region of the large subunit rRNA gene (LSU) and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, the two strains were determined to represent a novel Yamadazyma species although formation of ascospores was not observed. The sequences of the D1/D2 region of the LSU rRNA gene and the ITS region of the two strains were identical but differed from Yamadazyma phyllophila, the closest species in terms of pairwise sequence similarity of the D1/D2 region, by 1.7 % nucleotide substitutions and 3.5 % nucleotide substitutions in the ITS region. The name Yamadazyma ubonensis f.a., sp. nov. is proposed (type strain is DMKU-XE142(T) = BCC 61020(T) = CBS 12859(T)).
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