ReviewCurrent opinion in cell biology2016
Adder and a coarse-grained approach to cell size homeostasis in bacteria.
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- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Coupling Bacterial Cell Size Regulation with Clonal Proliferation Dynamics Reveals Cell Division Based on Surface Area.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Resource allocation to cell envelopes and the scaling of bacterial growth rate.Physical biology · 2025Article
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- A generalized adder for cell size homeostasis: Effects on stochastic clonal proliferation.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- A GeneralizedbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Scaling of stochastic growth and division dynamics: A comparative study of individual rod-shaped cells in the Mother Machine and SChemostat platforms.Molecular biology of the cell · 2024Article
- Mechanisms of cell size regulation in slow-growing Escherichia coli cells: discriminating models beyond the adder.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2024Article
- Balance between asymmetric allocation and repair of somatic damage in unicellular life forms as an ancient form of r/K selection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Intracellular signaling in proto-eukaryotes evolves to alleviate regulatory conflicts of endosymbiosis.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- A Moments-Based Analytical Approach for Cell Size Homeostasis.IEEE control systems letters · 2024Article
- Unicellular life balances asymmetric allocation and repair of somatic damage representing the origin of r/K selection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Protein aggregates act as a deterministic disruptor during bacterial cell size homeostasis.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2023Article
- PyEcoLib: a python library for simulating stochastic cell size dynamics.Physical biology · 2023Article
- Beyond the average: An updated framework for understanding the relationship between cell growth, DNA replication, and division in a bacterial system.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Cellular resource allocation strategies for cell size and shape control in bacteria.The FEBS journal · 2022Review
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Abstract
Cell size control and homeostasis is a long-standing subject in biology. Recent experimental work provides extensive evidence for a simple, quantitative size homeostasis principle coined adder (as opposed to sizer or timer). The adder principle provides unexpected insights into how bacteria maintain their size without employing a feedback mechanism. We review the genesis of adder and recent cell size homeostasis study on evolutionarily divergent bacterial organisms and beyond. We propose new coarse-grained approaches to understand the underlying mechanisms of cell size control at the whole cell level.
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