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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 29, 期 11, 页码 1760-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.062
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- Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trust
- NSF CAREER grant [MCB-1253843]
- NIH [R01 GM118565-01, R35-400 GM127331]
Evolutionarily divergent bacteria share a common phenomenological strategy for cell-size homeostasis under steady-state conditions. In the presence of inherent physiological stochasticity, cells following this adder principle gradually return to their steady-state size by adding a constant volume between birth and division, regardless of their size at birth. However, the mechanism of the adder has been unknown despite intense efforts. In this work, we show that the adder is a direct consequence of two general processes in biology: (1) threshold- accumulation of initiators and precursors required for cell division to a respective fixed number-and (2) balanced biosynthesis-maintenance of their production proportional to volume growth. This mechanism is naturally robust to static growth inhibition but also allows us to reprogram cell-size homeostasis in a quantitatively predictive manner in both Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis. By generating dynamic oscillations in the concentration of the division protein FtsZ, we were able to oscillate cell size at division and systematically break the adder. In contrast, periodic induction of replication initiator protein DnaA caused oscillations in cell size at initiation but did not alter division size or the adder. Finally, we were able to restore the adder phenotype in slow-growing E. coli, the only known steady-state growth condition wherein E. coli significantly deviates from the adder, by repressing active degradation of division proteins. Together, these results show that cell division and replication initiation are independently controlled at the gene-expression level and that division processes exclusively drive cell-size homeostasis in bacteria.
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