Chromosome segregation in Escherichia coli B/r at various growth rates.
AUTOR(ES)
Pierucci, O
RESUMO
Chromosome segregation was analyzed in three substrains of Escherichia coli B/r growing at various rates. The cultures were pulse labeled with [14C]thymidine and bound to the bottom surface of a nitrocellulose membrane filter, and the radioactivity in newborn cells released from the surface during continuous elution with growth medium was measured. Since there was a fixed orientation in the release of newborn cells, the time course of the change in radioactivity per effluent cell could be used to investigate the orientation of chromosome segregation. If the radioactive deoxyribonucleic acid strands were partitioned at random between the progenies remaining attached to the membrane filter and those released into the effluent, the radioactivity per cell would decrease twofold after each generation of elution. The decrease in radioactivity was less than twofold at C + D min of elution and larger than twofold one generation later, indicating that chromosome segregation was nonrandom.
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