Systematic Perturbation of Cytoskeletal Function Reveals a Linear Scaling Relationship between Cell Geometry and Fitness

Cell Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1528-1537

  Monds, Russell D ^a,b   Lee, Timothy K ^b   Colavin, Alexandre ^c   Ursell, Tristan ^b   Quan, Selwyn ^a   Cooper, Tim F ^d   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a,b,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; MREB PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; CELL ENGINEERING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RATE; MREB GENE; NONHUMAN; ALLELE; CELL CLONE; CYTOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ALLELES; CLONE CELLS; CYTOSKELETON; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION;

EID: 84912066786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.040     Document Type: Article

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