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doi:10.1083/jcb.200708001
The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 179, No. 3, 381-387
The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525 $30.00
© Cabeen et al.
Skin and bones: the bacterial cytoskeleton, cell wall, and cell morphogenesis
Matthew T. Cabeen and
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
Correspondence to Christine Jacobs-Wagner: christine.jacobs-wagner{at}yale.edu
The bacterial world is full of varying cell shapes and sizes, and individual species perpetuate a defined morphology generation after generation. We review recent findings and ideas about how bacteria use the cytoskeleton and other strategies to regulate cell growth in time and space to produce different shapes and sizes.
Abbreviations used in this paper: PBP, penicillin-binding protein; PG, peptidoglycan.

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