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Abstract Rod-shaped bacteria grow by inserting peptidoglycan into the lateral cell wall during elongation and into the septal cell wall during division. These two modes of growth are driven by distinct peptidoglycan synthesis machineries that consume the shared precursor Lipid II and must be coordinated so that cell enlargement remains matched to division.
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