Review lecture on the growth and form of a bacterial cell
- 21 February 1974
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Vol. 267 (886), 303-336
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1974.0003
Abstract
The size, shape and composition of cells in cultures of bacteria maintained in steady states of exponential growth depend on the cultural conditions employed. Important factors influencing these parameters are the growth rate of the culture and the transit time of replication forks from one end of a chromosome to the other. The considerable progress which has been made in the last ten years in elucidating the rules governing the form and composition of cells ofEscherichia colias a function of growth rate and transit time is outlined in the Review.Keywords
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