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- Zhizhong Yao, Rebecca Davis, Roy Kishony, Daniel E Kahne, Natividad Ruiz
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 2012
Cell size varies greatly among different types of cells, but the range in size that a specific cell type can reach is limited. A long-standing question in biology is how cells control their size.… (More)
- Zhizhong Yao, Daniel E Kahne, Roy Kishony
- Molecular cell
- 2012
The bacterial cell wall is conserved in prokaryotes, stabilizing cells against osmotic stress. Beta-lactams inhibit cell-wall synthesis and induce lysis through a bulge-mediated mechanism; however,… (More)
- Hak Suk Chung, Zhizhong Yao, Nathan W Goehring, Roy Kishony, Jon Beckwith, Daniel E Kahne
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 2009
Beta-lactam antibiotics inhibit penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) involved in peptidoglycan synthesis. Although inhibition of peptidoglycan biosynthesis is generally thought to induce cell lysis,… (More)
- Anne-Stéphanie Rueff, Arnaud Chastanet, +8 authors Rut Carballido-López
- Molecular microbiology
- 2014
MreB proteins play a major role during morphogenesis of rod-shaped bacteria by organizing biosynthesis of the peptidoglycan cell wall. However, the mechanisms underlying this process are not well… (More)
- Nicolas Mirouze, Cécile Ferret, Zhizhong Yao, Arnaud Chastanet, Rut Carballido-López, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen
- PLoS genetics
- 2015
During bacterial exponential growth, the morphogenetic actin-like MreB proteins form membrane-associated assemblies that move processively following trajectories perpendicular to the long axis of the… (More)
- Zhizhong Yao
- 2013