Precise regulation of the relative rates of surface area and volume synthesis in bacterial cells growing in dynamic environments

Bacterial cells actively change their size and shape in response to external environments. Here, Shi et al. explore how cells regulate their morphology during rapid environmental changes, showing that the characteristic dynamics of surface area-to-volume ratio are conserved across genetic and chemic...

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Main Authors: Handuo Shi, Yan Hu, Pascal D. Odermatt, Carlos G. Gonzalez, Lichao Zhang, Joshua E. Elias, Fred Chang, Kerwyn Casey Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22092-5