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SUBMITTER: Campos M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4258233 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campos Manuel M Surovtsev Ivan V IV Kato Setsu S Paintdakhi Ahmad A Beltran Bruno B Ebmeier Sarah E SE Jacobs-Wagner Christine C
Cell 20141201 6
Cell size control is an intrinsic feature of the cell cycle. In bacteria, cell growth and division are thought to be coupled through a cell size threshold. Here, we provide direct experimental evidence disproving the critical size paradigm. Instead, we show through single-cell microscopy and modeling that the evolutionarily distant bacteria Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus achieve cell size homeostasis by growing, on average, the same amount between divisions, irrespective of cell len ...[more]