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Microbial composition of Kombucha determined using amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics

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Arıkan, Muzaffer, Mitchell, Alex L., Finn, Robert D., Gürel, Filiz·2020·Journal of Food Science

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Kombucha, a fermented tea generated from the co-culture of yeasts and bacteria, has gained worldwide popularity in recent years due to its potential benefits to human health. As a result, many studies have attempted to characterize both its biochemical properties and microbial composition. Here, we have applied a combination of whole metagenome sequencing (WMS) and amplicon (16S rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 [ITS1]) sequencing to investigate the microbial communities of homemade Kombucha fermentations from day 3 to day 15. We identified the dominant bacterial genus as Komagataeibacter and dominant fungal genus as Zygosaccharomyces in all samples at all time points. Furthermore, we recovered three near complete Komagataeibacter genomes and one Zygosaccharomyces bailii genome and then predicted their functional properties. Also, we determined the broad taxonomic and functional profile of plasmids found within the Kombucha microbial communities. Overall, this study provides a detailed description of the taxonomic and functional systems of the Kombucha microbial community. Based on this, we conject that the functional complementarity enables metabolic cross talks between Komagataeibacter species and Z. bailii, which helps establish the sustained a relatively low diversity ecosystem in Kombucha.

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Authors
Arıkan, M., Mitchell, A. L., Finn, R. D., & Gürel, F.
Affiliations
  • Istanbul Medipol University (TR)
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
  • Istanbul University (TR)
Corresponding author
  • Arıkan, Muzaffer
  • Gürel, Filiz
Venue
Journal of Food Science
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2020-01-20
Volume
85
Issue
2
Pages
455-464
ISSN
  • 0022-1147 (ISSN-L)
  • 1750-3841
OpenAlex
W3001198075
Cited by
123
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 22
FWCI
11.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Food Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu (215Z672)
  • Bilimsel Araştirma Projeleri Birimi, Istanbul Üniversitesi (20138)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/M011755/1, BB/R015228/1)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
Keywords
kombucha, microbial community composition, Komagataeibacter, Zygosaccharomyces bailii, yeast-bacteria co-culture, fermented tea, plasmids, functional metagenomics, metabolic crosstalk, 16S rRNA, ITS1
MeSH terms
Fermented Foods, Bacteria, Beverages, Fermentation, Yeasts, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Metagenome, Metagenomics, Microbiota

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