A bacterial size law revealed by a coarse-grained model of cell physiology.

Universal observations in Biology are sometimes described as "laws". In E. coli, experimental studies performed over the past six decades have revealed major growth laws relating ribosomal mass fraction and cell size to the growth rate. Because they formalize complex emerging principles in...

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Main Authors: François Bertaux, Julius von Kügelgen, Samuel Marguerat, Vahid Shahrezaei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008245