Fails to Hold Its Cell Wall Integrity against Nonpathogenic : Are Probiotic Yeasts Losing the Battle?

Probiotic yeast exerts direct probiotic action on pathogenic by trapping them on surfaces and inactivating toxic lipopolysaccharides. Using optical dark-field microscopy, we show that nonpathogenic cells also readily bind probiotic More importantly, the adhered nonpathogenic progressively damage cell walls and lyse them. Co-cultured methylene blue-supplemented agar-plate assay indicates that rough lipopolysaccharides might be playing a key role in cell wall damage.