Cell growth and gene expression, two essential elements of all living systems, have long
been the focus of biophysical interrogation. Advances in experimental single-cell methods …

All bacterial cells must expand their envelopes during growth. The main load‐bearing and
shape‐determining component of the bacterial envelope is the peptidoglycan cell wall …

For bacteria to increase in size, they need to enzymatically expand their cell envelopes, and
more concretely their peptidoglycan cell wall. A major task of growth is to increase …

Cell growth and gene expression, two essential elements of all living systems, have long
been the focus of biophysical interrogation. Advances in experimental single-cell methods …

A bacterial cell is a self-replicating machine that must, during steady-state growth, duplicate
all its contents within its doubling time. To achieve this, bacterial cells acquire nutrients from …

Antibiotics that target different steps of cell wall synthesis are generally thought to induce cell
lysis as the shared bactericidal mode of action. This lysis process is catalysed by autolysins …