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Kevin D. Young
Researcher at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Publications - 87
Citations - 6476
Kevin D. Young is an academic researcher from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Peptidoglycan & Penicillin binding proteins. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 87 publications receiving 5930 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin D. Young include Texas A&M University & University of Oklahoma.
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The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape
TL;DR: The aim of this review is to spell out the physical, environmental, and biological forces that favor different bacterial morphologies and which, therefore, contribute to natural selection.
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Escherichia coli Mutants Lacking All Possible Combinations of Eight Penicillin Binding Proteins: Viability, Characteristics, and Implications for Peptidoglycan Synthesis
TL;DR: Members of the set of PBP mutants will provide excellent starting points for answering fundamental questions about other aspects of cell wall metabolism and for interpreting results derived by mutating unknown open reading frames in genome projects.
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Characterization of the desulfurization genes from Rhodococcus sp. strain IGTS8.
TL;DR: Protein sequence comparisons revealed that the predicted SoxC protein is similar to members of the acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase family but that the SoxA and SoxB proteins have no significant identities to other known proteins.
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Bacterial morphology: why have different shapes?
TL;DR: If a bacterium needs to eat, divide or survive, or if it needs to attach, move or differentiate, then it can benefit from adopting an appropriate shape, and may change its morphology to fit the circumstances.
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What determines cell size
Wallace F. Marshall,Kevin D. Young,Matthew P. Swaffer,Elizabeth Wood,Paul Nurse,Paul Nurse,Akatsuki Kimura,Joseph Frankel,John Charles Wallingford,Virginia Walbot,Xian Qu,Adrienne H. K. Roeder +11 more
TL;DR: The essays in this collection address two related questions - why does cell size matter, and how do cells control it.