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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ursell, Tristan S ^a   Nguyen, Jeffrey ^b   Monds, Russell D ^a   Colavin, Alexandre ^c   Billings, Gabriel ^c   Ouzounov, Nikolay ^b   Gitai, Zemer ^b   Shaevitz, Joshua W ^b   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a,c,d  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cytoskeleton; Biophysical modeling; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE MARKER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIPID VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BACTERIAL CYTOSKELETON; BIOPHYSICAL MODELING; MORPHOGENESIS;

BIOPHYSICS; CELL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84895800105     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317174111     Document Type: Article

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