Martijn Wehrens, Dmitry Ershov, Rutger Rozendaal, Noreen Walker, Daniel Schultz, Roy Kishony, Petra Anne Levin, Sander J Tans
Our understanding of bacterial cell size control is based mainly on stress-free growth conditions in the laboratory [1-10]. In the real world, however, bacteria are routinely faced with stresses that produce long filamentous cell morphologies [11-28]. Escherichia coli is observed to filament in response to DNA damage [22-25], antibiotic treatment [11-14, 28], host immune systems [15, 16], temperature [17], starvation [20], and more [18, 19, 21], conditions which are relevant to clinical settings and food preservation [26]...
February 22, 2018: Current Biology: CB