Bending forces plastically deform growing bacterial cell walls

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

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5778-5783

  Amir, Ariel ^a   Babaeipour, Farinaz ^b,c   McIntosh, Dustin B ^c   Nelson, David R ^a,b   Jun, Suckjoon ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell shape; Defects; Dislocation; Elasticity; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MREB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORCE; GROWTH; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL SHAPE; DEFECTS; DISLOCATION; ELASTICITY; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANISOTROPY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84899126879     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317497111     Document Type: Article

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