Life, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(10), P. 1213 - 1213
Published: Sept. 24, 2024
In this very personal hunt for the meaning of bacterial cell cycle, snark, I briefly revisit and update some mechanisms we many others have proposed to regulate cycle. These mechanisms, which include dynamics calcium, membranes, hyperstructures, networks, are based on physical physico-chemical concepts such as ion condensation, phase transition, crowding, liquid crystal immiscibility, collective vibrational modes, reptation, water availability. draw ideas from subjects ‘prebiotic ecology’ phenotypic diversity help with hunt. Given fundamental nature would expect that its capture make sense other parts biology. The route, therefore, followed by has involved trying answer questions like “why do cells replicate their DNA?”, is DNA replication semi-conservative?”, a double helix?”, divide?”, “is division spandrel?”, “how catabolism anabolism balanced?”. Here, propose relatively unexplored, experimental approaches testing snark-related hypotheses and, finally, possibly original about packing, separations, computing populations virtual bacteria.
Language: Английский