Most bacteria are surrounded by a peptidoglycan cell wall that defines their shape and
protects them from osmotic lysis. The expansion and division of this structure therefore plays …

Bacterial physiology is a branch of biology that aims to understand overarching principles of
cellular reproduction. Many important issues in bacterial physiology are inherently …

Pulmonary delivery of nanomedicines is very promising in lung local disease treatments
whereas several physiological barriers limit its application via the interaction with inhaled …

Cell elongation in rod-shaped bacteria is mediated by the Rod system, a conserved
morphogenic complex that spatially controls cell wall assembly by the glycan polymerase …

Rod-shaped bacteria grow by adding material into their cell wall via the action of two
spatially distinct enzymatic systems: the Rod complex moves around the cell circumference …

How bacteria link their growth rate to external nutrient conditions is unknown. To investigate
how Bacillus subtilis cells alter the rate at which they expand their cell walls as they grow …

Bacteria have evolved to develop multiple strategies for antibiotic resistance by effectively
reducing intracellular antibiotic concentrations or antibiotic binding affinities, but the role of …

Most, if not all, bacterial and archaeal cells contain at least one protein filament system.
Although these filament systems in some cases form structures that are very similar to …

Bacterial cell wall synthesis is the target for some of our most powerful antibiotics and has
thus been the subject of intense research focus for more than 50 years. Surprisingly, we still …

Recently discovered simple quantitative relations, known as bacterial growth laws, hint at
the existence of simple underlying principles at the heart of bacterial growth. In this work, we …