Jun Suckjoon, Rust Michael J
University of California San Diego, Department of Physics and Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biology, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
University of Chicago, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Department of Physics, 900 E 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Trends Genet. 2017 Jul;33(7):433-435. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2017.05.001. Epub 2017 May 22.
A new study clarifies a relationship between growth, gene expression, and cell size in cyanobacteria. Quite unexpectedly, cyanobacteria and Escherichia coli appear to share an invariance principle to coordinate growth and chromosome replication. This principle allows quantitative predictions of cell size across a range of growth conditions in both organisms.
一项新研究阐明了蓝细菌中生长、基因表达和细胞大小之间的关系。颇为出人意料的是,蓝细菌和大肠杆菌似乎共享一种协调生长和染色体复制的不变性原则。这一原则使得能够对这两种生物体在一系列生长条件下的细胞大小进行定量预测。