Towards measuring growth rates of pathogens during infections by D2O-labeling lipidomics
C. Neubauer, A. L. Sessions, I. R. Booth, B. P. Bowen, S. H. Kopf, D. K. Newman, N. F. Dalleska
This paper develops a D2O-labeling lipidomics approach to measure microbial growth rates in infections, finding that deuterium incorporation in lipids can estimate generation times of pathogens like S. aureus.
bioRxiv · May 25, 2018Biochemistry