Role of the ftsA gene product in control of Escherichia coli cell division
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 140 (2), 388-394
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.140.2.388-394.1979
Abstract
The kinetics of cell division were studied in a strain of E. coli which has an amber mutation in the ftsA gene and which carries a temperature-sensitive amber suppressor. This strain is temperature-sensitive for the synthesis of the ftsA protein. Cells of this strain divided only if the synthesis of this protein took place during a specific part of the cell cycle. This was a short period (roughly 10 min in duration) immediately before the normal time of cell division.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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