Study of cell wall growth in Bacillus megaterium by high-resolution autoradiography.
AUTOR(ES)
de Chastellier, C
RESUMO
Growth of the cell wall of Bacillus megaterium was studied by pulse-labeling the cell wall of a DAP- Lys- mutant for a very short time with tritium-labeled diaminopimelic acid. The distribution of radioactivity along the cell wall was examined by high-resolution autoradiography on isolated cell walls and thin sections of bacteria. The results indicate that cell wall elongation occurs by diffuse intercalation of newly synthesized murein into the expanding cell wall during exponential growth, as well as during germination, and that the only zone of highly localized diaminopimelic acid incorporation is found at the cross wall during its synthesis. This zone contains about 30% of the radioactivity incorporated into the cell wall. Analysis of autoradiographs of thin sections of bacteria shows that the total radioactivity incorporated per bacterium doubles during the life cycle. This doubling occurs in the cylindrical part of the cell wall but not in the polar caps. This seems to indicate that elongation of the bacterium is not constant during the life cycle but increases with the length of the cell.
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