Branched Escherichia coli cells.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb00955.x

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Branched Escherichia coli cells.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 1993

Akerlund T, Nordström K, Bernander R

Abstract excerpt

We report that the normally rod-shaped bacterium Escherichia coli can form branched cells. These were found in strains in which chromosome replication or nucleoid segregation was disturbed, e.g. in minB mutants, intR1 strains, and in strains exhibiting stable DNA replication. Often chromosome DNA...

Topics

Actinomycetaceae
Culture Media
DNA Replication
Escherichia coli
Intracellular Membranes
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Species Specificity

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