Microbial life in slow and stopped lanes

RM Walker, VC Sanabria, H Youk - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Microbes in nature often lack nutrients and face extreme or widely fluctuating temperatures,
unlike microbes in growth-optimized settings in laboratories that much of the literature …

Cell size homeostasis is tightly controlled throughout the cell cycle

X Liu, J Yan, MW Kirschner - PLoS biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
To achieve a stable size distribution over multiple generations, proliferating cells require a
means of counteracting stochastic noise in the rate of growth, the time spent in various …

From noisy cell size control to population growth: when variability can be beneficial

A Genthon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08512, 2024 - arxiv.org
Single-cell experiments revealed substantial variability in generation times, growth rates but
also in birth and division sizes between genetically identical cells. Understanding how these …

Continuous Approximation of Stochastic Maps for Modeling Asymmetric Cell Division

A Arcobi, S Burov - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09391, 2023 - arxiv.org
Cell size control and homeostasis is a major topic in cell biology yet to be fully understood.
Several growth laws like the timer, adder, and sizer were proposed, and mathematical …

[HTML][HTML] A Generalized Adder mechanism for Cell Size Homeostasis: Implications for Stochastic Dynamics of Clonal Proliferation

C Nieto, CA Vargas-García, A Singh - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Measurements of cell size dynamics have revealed phenomenological principles by which
individual cells control their size across diverse organisms. One of the emerging paradigms …

Mechanochemical Morphodynamics of Active Bacterial Cells

J Chaudhuri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12681, 2024 - arxiv.org
Bacterial cells exhibit a diverse array of shapes and sizes, largely governed by their cell
walls in conjunction with cytoskeletal proteins and internal turgor pressure. The present …