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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Microbiol.
Sec. Microbial Symbioses
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1443767

Investigation of the Fermentation Filtrate of Soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn.) pericarp on improving the diversity and microbial composition on Human Scalp

Provisionally accepted
Chong Xu Chong Xu 1Danyang Pan Danyang Pan 1Dexiang Zhang Dexiang Zhang 1Lin Lin Lin Lin 1Yiti Cheng Yiti Cheng 1Shuangcheng Liang Shuangcheng Liang 2,3,4Jingyu He Jingyu He 1,5*
  • 1 Guangzhou Uniasia Cosmetics Technology Co., Ltd, Guangzhou, China
  • 2 Research Centre of Chinese Herbal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
  • 3 Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • 4 Other, Guangzhou, China
  • 5 School of Chemistry, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

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    Microorganisms as a component of scalp ecosystem play a vital role in human scalp health. To investigate the effect of the fermentation filtrate of soapberry pericarp on the diversity of scalp microorganisms, 16S and ITS sequences of 198 samples from three different used stages (Day 0, Day 7, Day 28) were sequenced using the Illumina Novaseq platform. The alpha-diversity and beta-diversity analyses showed that scalp microbial diversity and composition were influenced by the fermentation filtrate of soapberry pericarp. Based on functional analysis, this study found an enrichment of healthy scalp-related bacterial pathways, such as amino acid, nucleoside, and nucleotide biosynthesis, while a decrease in fungal pathogenesis pathways, specifically saprotroph and symbiotroph pathways, was observed. In conclusion, the study described about the complex community dynamics of human scalp microorganisms during the stages of using the fermentation filtrate of soapberry pericarp. This result will help rationally utilize the fermentation filtrate of soapberry pericarp to keep or improve human scalp health.

    Keywords: Keyword ： Microbial community, Human scalp, Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn, Fermentation filtrate, bacterial-fungal inter-kingdom networks

    Received: 05 Jun 2024; Accepted: 23 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Xu, Pan, Zhang, Lin, Cheng, Liang and He. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jingyu He, Guangzhou Uniasia Cosmetics Technology Co., Ltd, Guangzhou, China

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