ReviewBMC biology2014
How and why cells grow as rods.
Review in BMC biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.
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39 citing papers in PubMed.
- Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis to maintain rod shape in Bacillus subtilis.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Expression of nano-engineered RNA organelles in bacteria.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Frog-killing chytrid fungus deploys different strategies to regulate intracellular pressure in developmental states that have or lack a cell wall.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Unusual Morphological Changes of a Novel Wrinkled Bacterium Isolated from the Rice Rhizosphere Under Nutrient Stress.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The "weaken-fill-repair" model for cell budding: Linking cell wall biosynthesis with mechanics.iScience · 2024Article
- Conserved physical mechanisms of cell and tissue elongation.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Quantifying turgor pressure in budding and fission yeasts based upon osmotic properties.Molecular biology of the cell · 2023Article
- Quantifying turgor pressure in budding and fission yeasts based upon osmotic properties.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Phenotypic and metabolic adaptations ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Feedback linking cell envelope stiffness, curvature, and synthesis enables robust rod-shaped bacterial growth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Localized Production of Cell Wall Precursors May Be Critical for Regulating the Mycobacterial Cell Wall.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Article
- What Is Motion? Recent Advances in the Study of Molecular Movement Patterns of the Peptidoglycan Synthesis Machines.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Review
- In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe-based applications of synthetic biology.Microbial biotechnology · 2022Article
- A Model for Studying the Biomechanical Effects of Varying Ratios of Collagen Types I and III on Cardiomyocytes.Cardiovascular engineering and technology · 2021Article
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- Changes in Cell Size and Shape during 50,000 Generations of Experimental Evolution with Escherichia coli.Journal of bacteriology · 2021Article
- The Application of Imaging Flow Cytometry for Characterisation and Quantification of Bacterial Phenotypes.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
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- Pomegranate: 2D segmentation and 3D reconstruction for fission yeast and other radially symmetric cells.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Cell biomechanics and mechanobiology in bacteria: Challenges and opportunities.APL bioengineering · 2020Review
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Abstract
The rod is a ubiquitous shape adopted by walled cells from diverse organisms ranging from bacteria to fungi to plants. Although rod-like shapes are found in cells of vastly different sizes and are constructed by diverse mechanisms, the geometric similarities among these shapes across kingdoms suggest that there are common evolutionary advantages, which may result from simple physical principles in combination with chemical and physiological constraints. Here, we review mechanisms of constructing rod-shaped cells and the bases of different biophysical models of morphogenesis, comparing and contrasting model organisms in different kingdoms. We then speculate on possible advantages of the rod shape, and suggest strategies for elucidating the relative importance of each of these advantages.
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