How to build a bacterial cell: MreB as the foreman of E. coli construction

H Shi, BP Bratton, Z Gitai, KC Huang - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cell shape matters across the kingdoms of life, and cells have the remarkable capacity to
define and maintain specific shapes and sizes. But how are the shapes of micron-sized cells …

A statistical physics view of swarming bacteria

A Be'er, G Ariel - Movement ecology, 2019 - Springer
Bacterial swarming is a collective mode of motion in which cells migrate rapidly over
surfaces, forming dynamic patterns of whirls and jets. This review presents a physical point …

Morphologic design of nanostructures for enhanced antimicrobial activity

FAZ Sayed, NG Eissa, Y Shen, DA Hunstad… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Despite significant progress in synthetic polymer chemistry and in control over tuning the
structures and morphologies of nanoparticles, studies on morphologic design of …

Peptidoglycan at its peaks: how chromatographic analyses can reveal bacterial cell wall structure and assembly

SM Desmarais, MA De Pedro, F Cava… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall is a unique macromolecule responsible for both shape
determination and cellular integrity under osmotic stress in virtually all bacteria. A …

Design principles for nonequilibrium self-assembly

M Nguyen, S Vaikuntanathan - Proceedings of the National …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We consider an important class of self-assembly problems, and using the formalism of
stochastic thermodynamics, we derive a set of design principles for growing controlled …

MreB orientation correlates with cell diameter in Escherichia coli

N Ouzounov, JP Nguyen, BP Bratton, D Jacobowitz… - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
Bacteria have remarkably robust cell shape control mechanisms. For example, cell diameter
only varies by a few percent across a given population. The bacterial actin homolog, MreB …

Colocalization and interaction between elongasome and divisome during a preparative cell division phase in Escherichia coli

R Van der Ploeg, J Verheul, NOE Vischer… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The rod‐shaped bacterium E scherichia coli grows by insertion of peptidoglycan into the
lateral wall during cell elongation and synthesis of new poles during cell division. The …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial cell wall material properties determine E. coli resistance to sonolysis

Ž Pandur, M Dular, D Stopar - Ultrasonics sonochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The applications of bacterial sonolysis in industrial settings are plagued by the lack of the
knowledge of the exact mechanism of action of sonication on bacterial cells, variable …

Membrane molecular crowding enhances MreB polymerization to shape synthetic cells from spheres to rods

D Garenne, A Libchaber… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Executing gene circuits by cell-free transcription− translation into cell-sized compartments,
such as liposomes, is one of the major bottom-up approaches to building minimal cells. The …

How and why cells grow as rods

F Chang, KC Huang - BMC biology, 2014 - Springer
The rod is a ubiquitous shape adopted by walled cells from diverse organisms ranging from
bacteria to fungi to plants. Although rod-like shapes are found in cells of vastly different sizes …