Isolation of the killer yeasts and its characteristics

Killer 효모의 분리 및 특성

Ten strains out of about 1,000 yeast strains isolated from byproducts of alcoholic industries, milk products, fruits, greens, food-related industries and soils of nature, revealed the killer activities. Two strains which have excellent killer activities among them were isolated and identified with Saccharomyces cerevisiae B 15-1 and Hansenula anomala Y 33 by investigation of the morphological, cultural and physiological properties. The optimal conditions on these strains for the production of killer toxin were investigated. The strain B 15-1 showed the highest killer toxin activities when it was cultured up to the log phase of 48 hr in YPD medium (pH 4.7) at $25^{\circ}C$. On the other hand, the strain Y33 revealed the highest activities when it was cultured up to the stationary phase of 60 hr in YPD medium (pH 4.0) at $20^{\circ}C$. The sensitive strain Kyokai 7 was found to be killed entirely by the killer toxin produced from the wild killer yeast B 15-1 when B 15-1 was cocultured with the same cell concentration ($10^{6}$ cells/ml) of Kyokai 7 after cultivation of 36 hr, and with large concentration ($9\times 10^{7}$ cells/ml) after 48 hr.