Isolation of lactic acid-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae from Cameroonian alcoholic beverage.

J Biosci Bioeng

Division of Applied Biology, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. Electronic address:

Published: December 2014

We investigated yeast strains used in Cameroonian microbreweries, and identified a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain (OCY3) with an excellent capacity for alcoholic fermentation. OCY3 showed higher tolerance to lactic acid and better fermentation performance under acidic conditions than a representative Japanese sake yeast, Kyokai No. 7, and a wine yeast, EC1118.

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