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Candida caseinolytica sp. nov., a New Species of Yeast Occurring in Necrotic Tissue of Opuntia and Stenocereus Species in the Southwestern United States and Baja California, Mexico

¹Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, California 95616
²Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13210
³Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
⁴Department of Biology, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee 37204

^* Corresponding author. Phone: (916) 752-1238. Fax: (916) 752-4759.

ABSTRACT

We describe Candida caseinolytica, a new yeast species which occurs in rotting tissues of opuntias and other cacti in the North American Sonoran Desert and a few other localities. This small-celled, slowly growing yeast does not ferment any sugar and assimilates a limited number of carbon compounds, including 2- and 5-ketogluconic acids. It exhibits strong extracellular proteolytic activity on casein at pH 6.5, but gelatin is not hydrolyzed or is only weakly hydrolyzed by a few strains. The type strain of C. caseinolytica is strain UCD-FST 83-438.3 (= ATCC 90546 = CBS 7781).

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