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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Monteiro JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4557339 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150817
Staphylococcus aureus is an aggressive pathogen and a model organism to study cell division in sequential orthogonal planes in spherical bacteria. However, the small size of staphylococcal cells has impaired analysis of changes in morphology during the cell cycle. Here we use super-resolution microscopy and determine that S. aureus cells are not spherical throughout the cell cycle, but elongate during specific time windows, through peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling. Both peptidoglycan hydr ...[more]