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Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, December 2014
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Title
Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria
Published in
Current Biology, December 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.009
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Authors

Sattar Taheri-Araghi, Serena Bradde, John T. Sauls, Norbert S. Hill, Petra Anne Levin, Johan Paulsson, Massimo Vergassola, Suckjoon Jun

Abstract

How cells control their size and maintain size homeostasis is a fundamental open question. Cell-size homeostasis has been discussed in the context of two major paradigms: "sizer," in which the cell actively monitors its size and triggers the cell cycle once it reaches a critical size, and "timer," in which the cell attempts to grow for a specific amount of time before division. These paradigms, in conjunction with the "growth law" [1] and the quantitative bacterial cell-cycle model [2], inspired numerous theoretical models [3-9] and experimental investigations, from growth [10, 11] to cell cycle and size control [12-15]. However, experimental evidence involved difficult-to-verify assumptions or population-averaged data, which allowed different interpretations [1-5, 16-20] or limited conclusions [4-9]. In particular, population-averaged data and correlations are inconclusive as the averaging process masks causal effects at the cellular level. In this work, we extended a microfluidic "mother machine" [21] and monitored hundreds of thousands of Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis cells under a wide range of steady-state growth conditions. Our combined experimental results and quantitative analysis demonstrate that cells add a constant volume each generation, irrespective of their newborn sizes, conclusively supporting the so-called constant Δ model. This model was introduced for E. coli [6, 7] and recently revisited [9], but experimental evidence was limited to correlations. This "adder" principle quantitatively explains experimental data at both the population and single-cell levels, including the origin and the hierarchy of variability in the size-control mechanisms and how cells maintain size homeostasis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Israel 2 <1%
Estonia 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 672 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 233 33%
Researcher 105 15%
Student > Master 82 12%
Student > Bachelor 66 9%
Professor 34 5%
Other 89 13%
Unknown 99 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 195 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 171 24%
Physics and Astronomy 85 12%
Engineering 27 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 27 4%
Other 76 11%
Unknown 127 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 February 2023.
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#442,580
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Outputs from Current Biology
#1,717
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#5,199
of 359,929 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#30
of 190 outputs
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