Cell shape

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Cell shape determination is intimately linked to cell wall synthesis. The proteins involved in both functions interact in the cell wall biosynthetic complex.

Genes in this functional category

Important Original Publications

Ethan C Garner, Remi Bernard, Wenqin Wang, Xiaowei Zhuang, David Z Rudner, Tim Mitchison
Coupled, circumferential motions of the cell wall synthesis machinery and MreB filaments in B. subtilis.
Science: 2011, 333(6039);222-5
[PubMed:21636745] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Julia Domínguez-Escobar, Arnaud Chastanet, Alvaro H Crevenna, Vincent Fromion, Roland Wedlich-Söldner, Rut Carballido-López
Processive movement of MreB-associated cell wall biosynthetic complexes in bacteria.
Science: 2011, 333(6039);225-8
[PubMed:21636744] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


Important Reviews

Additional reviews: PubMed

Sven van Teeffelen, Zemer Gitai
Rotate into shape: MreB and bacterial morphogenesis.
EMBO J: 2011, 30(24);4856-7
[PubMed:22166997] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Matthew T Cabeen, Christine Jacobs-Wagner
The bacterial cytoskeleton.
Annu Rev Genet: 2010, 44;365-92
[PubMed:21047262] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kevin D Young
Bacterial shape: two-dimensional questions and possibilities.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2010, 64;223-40
[PubMed:20825347] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Rut Carballido-López, Alex Formstone
Shape determination in Bacillus subtilis.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2007, 10(6);611-6
[PubMed:17981078] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

George C Stewart
Taking shape: control of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 57(5);1177-81
[PubMed:16101993] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jakob Møller-Jensen, Jan Löwe
Increasing complexity of the bacterial cytoskeleton.
Curr Opin Cell Biol: 2005, 17(1);75-81
[PubMed:15661522] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kevin D Young
Bacterial shape.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 49(3);571-80
[PubMed:12914007] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Lucy Shapiro, Harley H McAdams, Richard Losick
Generating and exploiting polarity in bacteria.
Science: 2002, 298(5600);1942-6
[PubMed:12471245] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


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