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SUBMITTER: Zhou X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4864021 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Xiaoxue X Halladin David K DK Rojas Enrique R ER Koslover Elena F EF Lee Timothy K TK Huang Kerwyn Casey KC Theriot Julie A JA
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150501 6234
When Staphylococcus aureus undergoes cytokinesis, it builds a septum, generating two hemispherical daughters whose cell walls are only connected via a narrow peripheral ring. We found that resolution of this ring occurred within milliseconds ("popping"), without detectable changes in cell volume. The likelihood of popping depended on cell-wall stress, and the separating cells split open asymmetrically, leaving the daughters connected by a hinge. An elastostatic model of the wall indicated high c ...[more]