Collective mechano-response dynamically tunes cell-size distributions in growing bacterial colonies

Abstract Mechanical stresses stemming from environmental factors are a key determinant of cellular behavior and physiology. Yet, the role of self-induced biomechanical stresses in growing bacterial colonies has remained largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate how collective mechanical forcing plays...

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Main Authors: René Wittmann, G. H. Philipp Nguyen, Hartmut Löwen, Fabian J. Schwarzendahl, Anupam Sengupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01449-w