Bacterial Size: Can't Escape the Long Arm of the Law

Stephen Vadia; Petra Anne Levin

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.050

Bacterial Size: Can't Escape the Long Arm of the Law

Curr Biol. 2017 May 8;27(9):R339-R341. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.050.

Authors

Stephen Vadia¹, Petra Anne Levin²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
² Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. Electronic address: plevin@wustl.edu.

Abstract

Environmental perturbations can lead to changes in bacterial cell size that are not predicted by current models. A recent study presents a model that accurately predicts cell size under a variety of environmental conditions, from just a few measurable variables.

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MeSH terms

Cell Size
Escherichia coli*

Grants and funding

R01 GM064671/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States