Soft but Not Too Soft—How a Rigid Tube Expands without Breaking

Valentin Wernet; Satur Herrero; Reinhard Fischer

doi:10.1128/mBio.00501-21

mBio (Jun 2021)

Soft but Not Too Soft—How a Rigid Tube Expands without Breaking

Valentin Wernet,
Satur Herrero,
Reinhard Fischer

Affiliations

Valentin Wernet: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Satur Herrero: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Reinhard Fischer: ORCiD; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00501-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3

Abstract

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Fungi grow by apical extension of their hyphae. The continuous growth requires constant delivery of vesicles, which fuse with the membrane and secrete cell wall biosynthesis enzymes.

Published in mBio

ISSN: 2161-2129 (Print); 2150-7511 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/mbio

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