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Ever since morphological mutants in several rod-shaped bacteria were isolated (Boylan and Mendelson, 1969; Rogers et al., 1970; Satta et al., 1969), the question of cell shape maintenance has been and remains a central one. We examine a possible role in cell morphogenesis of the interdependence of the syntheses of peptidoglycan and other cell wall components.
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Pooley, H.M., Abellan, FX., Karamata, D. (1993). Wall Teichoic Acid, Peptidoglycan Synthesis and Morphogenesis in Bacillus Subtilis . In: de Pedro, M.A., Höltje, JV., Löffelhardt, W. (eds) Bacterial Growth and Lysis. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 65. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9359-8_46
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