Spatial dependence of stress distribution for rod-shaped bacteria
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A P Chatterjee1, A Dasgupta, A N Chatterjee
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
|December 7, 1988
Abstract:
The stress distribution in the cylindrical portion of the cell envelope of a rod-shaped bacterial cell was compared with that at its polar ends. Using a symmetry argument it is shown that the critical internal pressure for the initiation of yielding of the envelope material has a non-uniform distribution and is significantly higher for the polar regions.