Cellular heterogeneity in TNF/TNFR1 signalling: live cell imaging of cell fate decisions in single cells

MK Preedy, MRH White, V Tergaonkar - Cell Death & Disease, 2024 - nature.com
Cellular responses to TNF are inherently heterogeneous within an isogenic cell population
and across different cell types. TNF promotes cell survival by activating pro-inflammatory NF …

Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

RJ Allen, B Waclaw - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Bacterial growth presents many beautiful phenomena that pose new theoretical challenges
to statistical physicists, and are also amenable to laboratory experimentation. This review …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamental behaviors emerge from simulations of a living minimal cell

ZR Thornburg, DM Bianchi, TA Brier, BR Gilbert… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We present a whole-cell fully dynamical kinetic model (WCM) of JCVI-syn3A, a minimal cell
with a reduced genome of 493 genes that has retained few regulatory proteins or small …

Antibiotic susceptibility testing in less than 30 min using direct single-cell imaging

Ö Baltekin, A Boucharin, E Tano, DI Andersson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
The emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria are aggravated by incorrect
prescription and use of antibiotics. A core problem is that there is no sufficiently fast …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic origin of cell-size control and homeostasis in bacteria

F Si, G Le Treut, JT Sauls, S Vadia, PA Levin, S Jun - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Evolutionarily divergent bacteria share a common phenomenological strategy for cell-size
homeostasis under steady-state conditions. In the presence of inherent physiological …

Simultaneous cross-evaluation of heterogeneous E. coli datasets via mechanistic simulation

DN Macklin, TA Ahn-Horst, H Choi, NA Ruggero… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The generation of biological data is presenting us with one of the most
demanding analysis challenges the world has ever faced, not only in terms of storage and …

Dielectric nanohole array metasurface for high-resolution near-field sensing and imaging

D Conteduca, I Barth, G Pitruzzello, CP Reardon… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dielectric metasurfaces support resonances that are widely explored both for far-field
wavefront sha** and for near-field sensing and imaging. Their design explores the …

Transcription–replication interactions reveal bacterial genome regulation

AW Pountain, P Jiang, T Yao, E Homaee, Y Guan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Organisms determine the transcription rates of thousands of genes through a few modes of
regulation that recur across the genome. In bacteria, the relationship between the regulatory …

Size control in mammalian cells involves modulation of both growth rate and cell cycle duration

C Cadart, S Monnier, J Grilli, PJ Sáez… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, how mammalian cell size is controlled remains unclear
because of the difficulty of directly measuring growth at the single-cell level. Here we report …

[HTML][HTML] Invariance of initiation mass and predictability of cell size in Escherichia coli

F Si, D Li, SE Cox, JT Sauls, O Azizi, C Sou… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
It is generally assumed that the allocation and synthesis of total cellular resources in
microorganisms are uniquely determined by the growth conditions. Adaptation to a new …