New Preprint! BeAST and Yeast!

Excited to share this new preprint!

Bioelectrical antimicrobial susceptibility testing (BeAST) with the budding yeast S. cerevisiae

Congratulations to Tailise and the team! This was a great collaboration with Tasic lab @Unicamp, Brazil (more collaboration to be followed, hopefully!)

In this work, we investigated how membrane potential of yeast changes after stimulated with an externally applied electric field. We found that non-inhibited cells show a hyperpolarisation upon electric stimulation. Interestingly, the magnitude of hyperpolarisation correlates with the level of growth inhibition. Thus, we propose this could be used as a Bio-electrical AST.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.05.561038

Munehiro Asally : 16 Oct 2023 16:56 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem