Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

Life is characterized by a myriad of complex dynamic processes allowing organisms to grow,
reproduce, and evolve. Physical approaches for describing systems out of thermodynamic …

Patterns are ubiquitous in living systems and underlie the dynamic organization of cells,
tissues, and embryos. Mathematical frameworks have been devised to account for the self …

Bacterial physiology is a branch of biology that aims to understand overarching principles of
cellular reproduction. Many important issues in bacterial physiology are inherently …

Spatial organization is a hallmark of all living systems. Even bacteria, the smallest forms of
cellular life, display defined shapes and complex internal organization, showcasing a highly …

The l-arabinose-responsive AraC and its cognate PBAD promoter underlie one of the most
often used chemically inducible prokaryotic gene expression systems in microbiology and …

Molecular self-organziation, also regarded as pattern formation, is crucial for the correct
distribution of cellular content. The processes leading to spatiotemporal patterns often …

Rod-shaped bacteria such as E. coli have mechanisms to position their cell division plane at
the precise center of the cell, to ensure that the daughter cells are equal in size. The two …

How populations of growing cells achieve cell-size homeostasis remains a major question in
cell biology. Recent studies in rod-shaped bacteria support the" incremental rule" where …

The Escherichia coli Min system self-organizes into a cell-pole to cell-pole oscillator on the
membrane to prevent divisions at the cell poles. Reconstituting the Min system on a lipid …