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Mar 26, 2018 · Mechanisms that sense the straightness or curvature of the cell surface may be important to stabilize elongated cell shapes or to detect local 3D membrane geometries, such as protrusions or cilia (Cannon et al., 2017).
- Armin Haupt, Nicolas Minc
- 2018
Feb 1, 2019 · Largest Empty Circle (LEC) — the largest empty circle that can fit into a cell; provides a proxy for mechanical stress [16 ••]. • Convex hull — the smallest convex shape that contains an object.
- Aleksandra Sapala, Adam Runions, Richard S Smith
- 2019
Feb 27, 2018 · Following these observations, we propose that the size of the largest empty circle (LEC) that can fit into the cell contour (Figure 1G, yellow) can serve as a proxy for mechanical stress magnitude in both puzzle and non-puzzle shaped cells.
- Aleksandra Sapala, Adam Runions, Adam Runions, Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska, Mainak Das Gupta, Main...
- 2018
Mar 18, 2019 · The link between cell shape and function is fundamental to understanding cell and tissue biology. This article offers a glimpse into the world of cell biology, showing how important cell shape is in the development of organisms, tissue shape and function, and as a disease marker.
Cell shape is represented as follows: rod-like cell shapes as black bars; coccoid cell shapes as white bars with black borders; pleomorphic shapes as white bars with black vertical lines; spiral shapes as white bars with thin diagonal lines; and curved shapes as white bars with thick diagonal lines.
Animal cells in particular come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Plant cell shapes tend to be quite similar to each other because of their rigid cell wall. We can learn a lot about what a cell does by looking at its shape and size, and microscopes are the ideal tool for this. Shaped for the task
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Mar 15, 2018 · MreB polymerizes into short, curved membrane-bound filaments, interacting with the enzymes that build the cell wall. These MreB filament/enzyme complexes, as they insert new material into the growing cell wall, move in circle around the cell width, and perpendicularly to the cell length.
