Article
Cell-Size Homeostasis and the Incremental Rule in a Bacterial Pathogen.
Biophysical journal - 4 Aug 2015
Deforet Maxime, van Ditmarsch Dave, Xavier João B
Abstract excerpt
How populations of growing cells achieve cell-size homeostasis remains a major question in cell biology. Recent studies in rod-shaped bacteria support the "incremental rule" where each cell adds a constant length before dividing. Although this rule explains narrow cell-size distributions, its mechanism is still unknown. We show that the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa obeys the incremental rule to...
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