Factors affecting daughter cells' arrangement during the early bacterial divisions.

On agar plates, daughter cells of Escherichia coli mutually slide and align side-by-side in parallel during the first round of binary fission. This phenomenon has been previously attributed to an elastic material that restricts apparently separated bacteria from being in string. We hypothesize that...

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Main Authors: Pin-Tzu Su, Pei-Wen Yen, Shao-Hung Wang, Chi-Hung Lin, Arthur Chiou, Wan-Jr Syu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2818839?pdf=render