URLanism from various kingdoms of life face the challenge of regulating their size. Despite decades of research, we still do not have a good understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in this regulation, and how cells coordinate the different events of the cell cycle , such as growth, division and DNA replication is still unclear. Here, we report on experimental results for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the bacterium Escherichia coli, showing that, remarkably, they share a common strategy for cell size control. We collected data on single-cell growth and cell cycle progression in S . cerevisiae in several growth media and estimated the distributions of ] ] size at birth and interdivision time as well as their correlations throughout cell lineages. We also performed the same analysis on previously collected data on single-cell growth and division in E. coli. The results are in quantitative agreement with the predictions of the incremental model , which leads to the ] addition of a constant volume ( up to fluctuations), independent of size at birth, between birth and division; we show that in URLanisms size at birth and size at division exhibit a linear relationship with slope one. This result, together with extended additional analysis supporting ] the incremental model, argues against the existing "critical size" paradigm for cell size control in bacteriaand yeast .
To maintain a constant cell size, dividing cells have to coordinate cell cycle events with cell growth . This coordination has for long been supposed to rely on the existence of size thresholds determining cell cycle progression 1]. In budding yeast, size is controlled at the G1/S transition 11]. In agreement with this hypothesis, the size at birth influences the time spent in G1: smaller cells have a longer G1 period 3]. Nevertheless, even though cells born smaller have a longer G1, the compensation is imperfect and they still bud at smaller cell sizes. In bacteria, several recent studies have shown that the incremental model of size control, in which size is controlled by addition of a constant volume ( in contrast to a size threshold), is able to quantitatively explain the experimental data on 4 different bacterial species 6, 5, 6, 7]. Here, we report on experimental results for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, finding, surprisingly, that cell size control in URLanism is very well described by the incremental model, suggesting a common strategy for cell size control with bacteria. Additionally, we argue that for S. cerevisiae the volume increment is not added from birth to division, but rather between two budding events .
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