ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2010
Bacterial shape: two-dimensional questions and possibilities.
Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
85 citing papers in PubMed.
- Conserved rod-to-spherical shape transitions in Escherichia coli through primordial experimental adaptations.Bioscience reports · 2026Article
- Adaptive remodeling of cell wall peptidoglycan architecture inFood chemistry: X · 2026Article
- Alanine-scanning mutagenesis library of MreB reveals distinct roles for regulating cell shape and viability.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Modulation of bacterial cell size and growth rate via activation of a cell envelope stress response.mBio · 2025Article
- Evolutionary rescue of sphericaleLife · 2025Article
- Article
- Carbapenem-ResistantNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cell morphology as biomarker of carbapenem exposure.The Journal of antibiotics · 2024Article
- Elongasome core proteins and class A PBP1a display zonal, processive movement at the midcell ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Relationship between the Rod complex and peptidoglycan structure in Escherichia coli.MicrobiologyOpen · 2023Article
- Evidence of two differentially regulated elongasomes in Salmonella.Communications biology · 2023Article
- DivIVA Interacts with the Cell Wall Hydrolase MltG To Regulate Peptidoglycan Synthesis in Streptococcus suis.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Contact Area and Deformation ofLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023Article
- Interacting bactofilins impact cell shape of the MreB-less multicellular Rhodomicrobium vannielii.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Cell Sorting-Directed Selection of Bacterial Cells in Bigger Sizes Analyzed by Imaging Flow Cytometry during Experimental Evolution.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Density-dependent effects are the main determinants of variation in growth dynamics between closely related bacterial strains.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- The Bacterial Cell Wall: From Lipid II Flipping to Polymerization.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
- What Is Motion? Recent Advances in the Study of Molecular Movement Patterns of the Peptidoglycan Synthesis Machines.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Review
- A Biomimetic Porcine Urothelial Model for AssessingMicroorganisms · 2022Article
- Morphological change of coiled bacterium Spirosoma linguale with acquisition of β-lactam resistance.Scientific reports · 2021Article
25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
Abstract
Events in the past decade have made it both possible and interesting to ask how bacteria create cells of defined length, diameter, and morphology. The current consensus is that bacterial shape is determined by the coordinated activities of cytoskeleton complexes that drive cell elongation and division. Cell length is most easily explained by the timing of cell division, principally by regulating the activity of the FtsZ protein. However, the question of how cells establish and maintain a specific and uniform diameter is, by far, much more difficult to answer. Mutations associated with the elongation complex often alter cell width, though it is not clear how. Some evidence suggests that diameter is strongly influenced by events during cell division. In addition, surprising new observations show that the bacterial cell wall is more highly malleable than previously believed and that cells can alter and restore their shapes by relying only on internal mechanisms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.