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. 2020 May 7:9:e57043.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.57043.

Driving polar growth

Neeraj Dhar  1
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Driving polar growth

Neeraj Dhar. Elife. .

Abstract

Profiling the phenotype of 200,000 mutants revealed a new cofactor that may help a group of rod-shaped bacteria elongate and grow.

Keywords: bacteria; corynebacteria; infectious disease; microbiology; mycobacteria; peptidoglycan.

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ND No competing interests declared

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