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Cellular microbiology: All aboard the cell-wall shuttle
Nature Reviews Microbiology 6, 414 (2008). doi:10.1038/nrmicro1924
Author: Sheilagh Molloy
The coordination of bacterial cell-wall synthesis has been hotly debated for almost 40 years. A recent paper in Molecular Microbiology now sheds new light on this topic by revealing how the cell elongation-division cycle is controlled in Bacillus subtilis.In rod-shaped bacteria, such
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