Threshold accumulation of a constitutive protein explains E. coli cell division behavior in nutrient upshifts.
M. Panlilio, J. Grilli, G. Tallarico, I. Iuliani, B. Sclavi, P. Cicuta, M. Cosentino Lagomarsino
The paper investigates E. coli cell division behavior during nutrient upshifts and finds that a constitutive protein accumulates to a threshold, triggering division and maintaining adder correlations.
bioRxiv · Aug 3, 2020Cell Biology