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On the chronology and topography of bacterial cell division
M Vicente1, P Palacios, A Dopazo
1Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid.
Research in Microbiology
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
Gene products that play a role in the formation of cell septum should be expected to be endowed with a set of specific properties. In principle, septal proteins should be located at the cell envelope. The expression of division genes should ensure the synthesis of septal proteins at levels commensurate with the needs of cell division at different rates of cell duplication. We have results indicating that some fts genes located within the 2.5-min cluster in the Escherichia coli chromosome conform to these predictions.