Article
Delayed nucleoid segregation in Escherichia coli.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Sept 1999
Huls P G, Vischer N O, Woldringh C L
Abstract excerpt
To study the role of cell division in the process of nucleoid segregation, we measured the DNA content of individual nucleoids in isogenic Escherichia coli cell division mutants by image cytometry. In pbpB(Ts) and ftsZ strains growing as filaments at 42 degrees C, nucleoids contained, on average, more than two chromosome equivalents compared with 1.6 in wild-type cells. Because similar results were obtained with...
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