High yield production of cellulose by a Komagataeibacter rhaeticus PG2 strain isolated from pomegranate as a new host.

ABSTRACT: Gluconacetobacter xylinus is a well-known organism that produces bacterial cellulose (BC). The present study was undertaken to find an alternative bacteria from a collection of 216 bacterial isolates, which were isolated from different rotten fruits and fermented beverages, to find a better producer of bacterial cellulose. We obtained a potent strain, which produced a high yield of BC from a rotten pomegranate sample, and was further identified as Komagataeibacter rhaeticus strain PG2 using 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. To date, only two strains of Komagataeibacter rhaeticus are known to produce BC, and these were mainly isolated from a fermented beverage, kombucha. For the first time, we have isolated a BC producing Komagataeibacter rhaeticus strain PG2 from

SUBMITTER: Thorat MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9085265 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature