A new study clarifies a relationship between growth, gene expression, and cell size in cyanobacteria. Quite unexpectedly, cyanobacteria and Escherichia coli appear to share an invariance principle to coordinate growth and chromosome replication. This principle allows quantitative predictions of cell size across a range of growth conditions in both organisms.

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细菌细胞大小的基本单位

一项新的研究阐明了蓝细菌中生长，基因表达和细胞大小之间的关系。出乎意料的是，蓝细菌和大肠杆菌似乎具有不变的原理来协调生长和染色体复制。该原理允许对两种生物在一系列生长条件下的细胞大小进行定量预测。