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Effect of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli on microbial communities during kimchi fermentation

  • Woojung Lee
  • , Hyo Ju Choi
  • , Hyunwoo Zin
  • , Eiseul Kim
  • , Seung Min Yang
  • , Jinhee Hwang
  • , Hyo Sun Kwak
  • , Soon Han Kim
  • , Hae Yeong Kim

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Abstract

The diverse microbial communities in kimchi are dependent on fermentation period and temperature. Here, we investigated the effect of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) during the fermentation of kimchi at two temperatures using high-throughput sequencing. There were no differences in pH between the control group, samples not inoculated with ETEC, and the ETEC group, samples inoculated with ETEC MFDS 1009477. The pH of the two groups, which were fermented at 10 and 25oC, decreased rapidly at the beginning of fermentation and then reached pH 3.96 and pH 3.62. In both groups, the genera Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, and Weissella were predominant. Our result suggests that microbial communities during kimchi fermentation may be affected by the fermentation parameters, such as temperature and period, and not enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1552-1558
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Volume31
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Nov 2021

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Copyright © 2021 by the authors. Licensee KMB. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

Keywords

  • 16S rRNA gene
  • Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC)
  • Kimchi
  • Microbial community

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