Cell-size maintenance: universal strategy revealed

Suckjoon Jun; Sattar Taheri-Araghi

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2014.12.001

Cell-size maintenance: universal strategy revealed

Trends Microbiol. 2015 Jan;23(1):4-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.12.001. Epub 2014 Dec 12.

Authors

Suckjoon Jun¹, Sattar Taheri-Araghi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: suckjoon.jun@gmail.com.
² Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

PMID: 25497321
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.12.001

Abstract

How cells maintain a stable size has fascinated scientists since the beginning of modern biology, but has remained largely mysterious. Recently, however, the ability to analyze single bacteria in real time has provided new, important quantitative insights into this long-standing question in cell biology.

Keywords: bacterial physiology; cell cycle; cell size control; cell size homeostasis; growth law.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Caulobacter crescentus / cytology
Cell Cycle*
Cell Size*
Escherichia coli / cytology
Saccharomycetales / cytology