How and why cells grow as rods

Bacterial Cell Morphogenesis Does Not Require a Preexisting Template Structure

(2014) Yoshikazu Kawai et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Symmetry Breaking in Spore Germination Relies on an Interplay between Polar Cap Stability and Spore Wall Mechanics

(2014) Daria Bonazzi et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization

(2014) T. S. Ursell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Response of Escherichia coli growth rate to osmotic shock

(2014) E. Rojas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elasticity and Biochemistry of Growth Relate Replication Rate to Cell Length and Cross-link Density in Rod-Shaped Bacteria

(2013) Akeisha M.T. Belgrave et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mechanical Consequences of Cell-Wall Turnover in the Elongation of a Gram-Positive Bacterium

(2013) Gaurav Misra et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Why are bacteria different from eukaryotes?

(2013) Julie A Theriot   BMC BIOLOGY

Establishing polar identity in gram-negative rods

(2013) Brigid M Davis et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Rcs Stress Response and Accessory Envelope Proteins Are Required for De Novo Generation of Cell Shape in Escherichia coli

(2013) D. K. Ranjit et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Shrinking the hammer: micromechanical approaches to morphogenesis

(2013) Pascale Milani et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Modes of deformation of walled cells

(2013) Jacques Dumais   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

FtsZ Protofilaments Use a Hinge-Opening Mechanism for Constrictive Force Generation

(2013) Y. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Model of Fission Yeast Cell Shape Driven by Membrane-Bound Growth Factors and the Cytoskeleton

(2013) Tyler Drake et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Strategies for cell shape control in tip-growing cells

(2012) Otger Campàs et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Nutrient-Dependent Structural Changes in S. aureus Peptidoglycan Revealed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2012) Xiaoxue Zhou et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Cell Size Control in Yeast

(2012) Jonathan J. Turner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cell Size Control in Bacteria

(2012) An-Chun Chien et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cylindrical cellular geometry ensures fidelity of division site placement in fission yeast

(2012) M. Mishra et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Measuring the stiffness of bacterial cells from growth rates in hydrogels of tunable elasticity

(2012) Hannah H. Tuson et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Dislocation-mediated growth of bacterial cell walls

(2012) A. Amir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Helical insertion of peptidoglycan produces chiral ordering of the bacterial cell wall

(2012) S. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nucleotide-dependent conformations of FtsZ dimers and force generation observed through molecular dynamics simulations

(2012) J. Hsin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polar growth in the Alphaproteobacterial order Rhizobiales

(2012) P. J. B. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Molecular Diversity of Adaptive Convergence

(2012) O. Tenaillon et al.   SCIENCE

Oscillatory Dynamics of Cdc42 GTPase in the Control of Polarized Growth

(2012) M. Das et al.   SCIENCE

Growth of curved and helical bacterial cells

(2012) Hongyuan Jiang et al.   Soft Matter

Computational Modeling of Synthetic Microbial Biofilms

(2012) Timothy J. Rudge et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Analysis of Surface Protein Expression Reveals the Growth Pattern of the Gram-Negative Outer Membrane

(2012) Tristan S. Ursell et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Mechanical Control of Bacterial Cell Shape

(2011) Hongyuan Jiang et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Chemically Mediated Mechanical Expansion of the Pollen Tube Cell Wall

(2011) Enrique R. Rojas et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Polyacrylamide hydrogels as substrates for studying bacteria

(2011) Hannah H. Tuson et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Myosin-5, kinesin-1 and myosin-17 cooperate in secretion of fungal chitin synthase

(2011) Martin Schuster et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Physics of Bacterial Morphogenesis

(2011) S. X. Sun et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Spatial control of Cdc42 activation determines cell width in fission yeast

(2011) Felice D. Kelly et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Mechanisms for maintaining cell shape in rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria

(2011) Leon Furchtgott et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

High-throughput, subpixel precision analysis of bacterial morphogenesis and intracellular spatio-temporal dynamics

(2011) Oleksii Sliusarenko et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Direct Measurement of Cell Wall Stress Stiffening and Turgor Pressure in Live Bacterial Cells

(2011) Yi Deng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

De Novo Growth Zone Formation from Fission Yeast Spheroplasts

(2011) Felice D. Kelly et al.   PLoS One

The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly

(2011) S. van Teeffelen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Processive Movement of MreB-Associated Cell Wall Biosynthetic Complexes in Bacteria

(2011) J. Dominguez-Escobar et al.   SCIENCE

Coupled, Circumferential Motions of the Cell Wall Synthesis Machinery and MreB Filaments in B. subtilis

(2011) E. C. Garner et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Shape: Two-Dimensional Questions and Possibilities

(2010) Kevin D. Young   Annual Review of Microbiology

Rho GTPases: regulation of cell polarity and growth in yeasts

(2010) Pilar Perez et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

A Catalytic Role for Mod5 in the Formation of the Tea1 Cell Polarity Landmark

(2010) Claudia C. Bicho et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Robust Growth of Escherichia coli

(2010) Ping Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A spindle-like apparatus guides bacterial chromosome segregation

(2010) Jerod L. Ptacin et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

A field guide to bacterial swarming motility

(2010) Daniel B. Kearns   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Morphology, Growth, and Size Limit of Bacterial Cells

(2010) Hongyuan Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Caulobacter chromosome segregation is an ordered multistep process

(2010) C. W. Shebelut et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatial gradient of protein phosphorylation underlies replicative asymmetry in a bacterium

(2010) Y. E. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Morphology of Caulobacter crescentus and the Mechanical Role of Crescentin

(2009) Jin Seob Kim et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cell Shape and Cell Division in Fission Yeast

(2009) Matthieu Piel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Shape and Dynamics of Tip-Growing Cells

(2009) Otger Campàs et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mechanical Forces of Fission Yeast Growth

(2009) Nicolas Minc et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Establishing New Sites of Polarization by Microtubules

(2009) Nicolas Minc et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Periodic reversal of direction allows Myxobacteria to swarm

(2009) Y. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-Wide Analysis in Vivo of Translation with Nucleotide Resolution Using Ribosome Profiling

(2009) N. T. Ingolia et al.   SCIENCE

Shaping Fission Yeast with Microtubules

(2009) F. Chang et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Cell growth and cell division in the rod-shaped actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum

(2008) Michal Letek et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Physical Mechanisms Redirecting Cell Polarity and Cell Shape in Fission Yeast

(2008) Courtney R. Terenna et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Tip Growth Apparatus of Aspergillus nidulans

(2008) Naimeh Taheri-Talesh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Molecular organization of Gram-negative peptidoglycan

(2008) L. Gan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PSICIC: Noise and Asymmetry in Bacterial Division Revealed by Computational Image Analysis at Sub-Pixel Resolution

(2008) Jonathan M. Guberman et al.   PLoS Computational Biology