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Bacterial community of kimchi added with seafood based on culture-dependent investigations
Junghyun Park1, Sojeong Heo1, Gawon Lee1
1Department of Food and Nutrition, Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, 02748, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Previously, microbial communities of five commercial kimchi added with seafood and one kimchi without seafood were analyzed using a culture-independent (CI) method. In the current study, microbial communities of the same samples were analyzed using a culture-dependent (CD) method with two media: tryptic soy agar (TSA) and Lactobacilli de Man, Rogosa and Sharpe (MRS) agar. MRS agar showed a higher proportion of lactic acid bacteria, while TSA showed a higher proportion of Bacillus species. Leuconostoc mesenteroides became dominant over time except in kimchi added with hongeu (HBK, okamejei kenojei). In the case of HBK, Bacillus was dominant. The low pH of HBK was confirmed by cell size and heat treatment under pH 4-7 conditions that Bacillus could be present in the form of spores. With the CD method, only Lactococcus lactis, Leu. citreum, and Weissella cibaria were detected. With the CI method, only Pediococcus inopinatus was detected. A notable finding was that Leu. mesenteroides was more abundant than Latilactobacillus sakei with the CD method, whereas it was similar or lower with the CI method. This discrepancy was confirmed to be due to different rates of DNA recovered from the two strains. This shows that the assay method may influence the detection of these two strains.
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