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Recent advances in understanding how rod-like bacteria stably maintain their cell shapes.
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- Inferring bacterial cell size dynamics across media conditions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Maintenance of cytoplasmic and membrane densities shapes cellular geometry in Escherichia coli.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Evolutionary rescue of sphericaleLife · 2025Article
- Bacterial cell size modulation along the growth curve across nutrient conditions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The role of GpsB inmBio · 2024Article
- Manipulating Microbial Cell Morphology for the Sustainable Production of Biopolymers.Polymers · 2024Review
- Interacting bactofilins impact cell shape of the MreB-less multicellular Rhodomicrobium vannielii.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Cellular resource allocation strategies for cell size and shape control in bacteria.The FEBS journal · 2022Review
- A High-Content Microscopy Screening Identifies New Genes Involved in Cell Width Control in Bacillus subtilis.mSystems · 2021Article
- Formation of wall-less cells in Kitasatospora viridifaciens requires cytoskeletal protein FilP in oxygen-limiting conditions.Molecular microbiology · 2021Article
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- Understanding Beta-Lactam-Induced Lysis at the Single-Cell Level.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Peptidoglycan: Structure, Synthesis, and Regulation.EcoSal Plus · 2021Article
- The Inorganic Nutrient Regime and themSphere · 2020Article
- Establishing rod shape from spherical, peptidoglycan-deficient bacterial spores.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- A Fly on the Wall: How Stress Response Systems Can Sense and Respond to Damage to Peptidoglycan.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2019Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Cell shape and cell volume are important for many bacterial functions. In recent years, we have seen a range of experimental and theoretical work that led to a better understanding of the determinants of cell shape and size. The roles of different molecular machineries for cell-wall expansion have been detailed and partially redefined, mechanical forces have been shown to influence cell shape, and new connections between metabolism and cell shape have been proposed. Yet the fundamental determinants of the different cellular dimensions remain to be identified. Here, we highlight some of the recent developments and focus on the determinants of rod-like cell shape and size in the well-studied model organisms
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