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Effect of selenium on growth and antioxidant enzyme activities of wine related yeasts

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The use of supplements in the diet is a common practice to address nutritional deficiencies. Selenium is an essential micronutrient with an antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic role in human and animal health. There is increasing interest in developing nutritional supplements such as yeast cells enriched with selenium. The possibility of producing beverages, namely wine, with selenium-enriched yeasts, led us to investigate the selenium tolerance of six wine related yeasts. The production of such cells may hamper selenium toxicity problems. Above certain concentrations selenium can be toxic inducing oxidative stress and yeast species can show different tolerance. This work aimed at studying selenium tolerance of a diversity of wine related yeasts, thus antioxidant response mechanisms with different concentrations of sodium selenite were evaluated. Viability assays demonstrated that the yeast Torulaspora delbrueckii showed the highest tolerance for the tested levels of 100 µg mL−1 of sodium selenite. The evaluation of antioxidative enzyme activities showed the best performance for concentrations of 250 and 100 µg mL−1, respectively for the yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Hanseniaspora guilliermondii. These results encourage future studies on the possibility to use pre-enriched yeast cells as selenium supplement in wine production.

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The authors wish to thank Rafaela Reis for her collaboration in the antioxidative enzymatic assay.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., UEISBRG, Quinta da Almoínha, 2565-191, Dois Portos, Portugal

    M. Assunção & M. M. Baleiras-Couto

  2. LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal

    M. Assunção, L. L. Martins & M. P. Mourato

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Assunção, M., Martins, L.L., Mourato, M.P. et al. Effect of selenium on growth and antioxidant enzyme activities of wine related yeasts. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 31, 1899–1906 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-015-1930-2

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