Affiliation:
1. Department of Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Abstract
After inhibition of protein synthesis, the number of nuclear bodies (nucleoids) visible in cells of Escherichia coli B/rA corresponded closely to the number of completely replicated chromosomes. We calculated that nucleoid partition follows almost immediately after replication forks reach the chromosome terminus. We show that such a partition is dependent on protein synthesis and that this may reflect the requirement that cells must achieve a certain minimum length before partition (and subsequent cell division) can take place.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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