Corte Laura, di Cagno Raffaella, Groenewald Marizeth, Roscini Luca, Colabella Claudia, Gobbetti Marco, Cardinali Gianluigi
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Microbiology, University of Perugia, Borgo 20 Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia, Italy.
Department of Plant Protection and Applied Microbiology, University of Bari, via Amendola 165/a, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Food Microbiol. 2015 Jun;48:206-15. doi: 10.1016/j.fm.2014.12.014. Epub 2015 Jan 20.
Meyerozyma guilliermondii is a yeast species widely isolated from several natural environments and from fruit; in medical microbiology it is known as the teleomorph of the opportunistic pathogen Candida guilliermondii, which causes about 2% of the human blood infections. This yeast is also promising in a variety of biotechnological applications as vitamins production and post-harvest control. The question if isolates from different sources are physiologically and genetically similar, or if the various environments induced significant differences, is crucial for the understanding of this species structure and to select strains appropriate for each application. This question was addressed using LSU and ITS sequencing for taxonomic assignment, i-SSR (GACA4) for the molecular characterization and FTIR for the metabolomic fingerprint. All data showed that fruit and environmental isolates cluster separately with a general good agreement between metabolomics and molecular analysis. An additional RAPD analysis was able to discriminate strains according to the isolation position within the pineapple fruit. Although all strains are members of the M. guilliermondii species according to the current standards, the distribution of large variability detected suggests that some specialization occurred in the niches inhabited by this yeast and that food related strains can be differentiated from the medical isolates.
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