A trehalose biosynthetic enzyme doubles as an osmotic stress sensor to regulate bacterial morphogenesis

• Ximing Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ximing Chen, Lizhe An

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Microbial Resources and Engineering of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Lizhe An ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ximing Chen, Lizhe An

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: p.j.dyson@swansea.ac.uk (PD); lizhean@lzu.edu.cn (LA)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Xiaochuan Fan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Furong Ju,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Binglin Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Microbial Resources and Engineering of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Haili Sun,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Jianxi Xiao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Wei Hu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Tao Qu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Liping Guan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Shukun Tang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China, Ministry of Education and Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

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• Tuo Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Microbial Resources and Engineering of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Guangxiu Liu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Microbial Resources and Engineering of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Paul Dyson

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: p.j.dyson@swansea.ac.uk (PD); lizhean@lzu.edu.cn (LA)

  Affiliation Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0558-2666

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