ReviewThe FEBS journal2022
Cellular resource allocation strategies for cell size and shape control in bacteria.
Review in The FEBS journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Cell geometry and membrane protein crowding constrain Escherichia coli growth rate, overflow metabolism, respiration, and maintenance energy.FEBS letters · 2026Article
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- Gene expression cycles drive non-exponential bacterial growth.Physical review research · 2025Article
- Cell Geometry Limits Bacterial Metabolic Efficiency.bioRxiv : the preprint server for 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
- A Hybrid Soft Sensor Approach Combining Partial Least-Squares Regression and an Unscented Kalman Filter for State Estimation in Bioprocesses.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Advancing antibiotic discovery with bacterial cytological profiling: a high-throughput solution to antimicrobial resistance.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of cell size regulation in slow-growing Escherichia coli cells: discriminating models beyond the adder.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2024Article
- Energy allocation theory for bacterial growth control in and out of steady state.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Inhibitory Effect of Adsorption ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Dynamic proteome trade-offs regulate bacterial cell size and growth in fluctuating nutrient environments.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Super-exponential growth and stochastic size dynamics in rod-like bacteria.Biophysical journal · 2023Article
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- Effects of antibiotics on bacterial cell morphology and their physiological origins.Biochemical Society transactions · 2022Review
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Abstract
Bacteria are highly adaptive microorganisms that thrive in a wide range of growth conditions via changes in cell morphologies and macromolecular composition. How bacterial morphologies are regulated in diverse environmental conditions is a long-standing question. Regulation of cell size and shape implies control mechanisms that couple the growth and division of bacteria to their cellular environment and macromolecular composition. In the past decade, simple quantitative laws have emerged that connect cell growth to proteomic composition and the nutrient availability. However, the relationships between cell size, shape, and growth physiology remain challenging to disentangle and unifying models are lacking. In this review, we focus on regulatory models of cell size control that reveal the connections between bacterial cell morphology and growth physiology. In particular, we discuss how changes in nutrient conditions and translational perturbations regulate the cell size, growth rate, and proteome composition. Integrating quantitative models with experimental data, we identify the physiological principles of bacterial size regulation, and discuss the optimization strategies of cellular resource allocation for size control.
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