Giant Cells of Escherichia coli
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 95 (1) , 139-+
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.95.1.139-142.1968
Abstract
A mutant strain E. coli K-12 produced amorphous cells when grown in a variety of media. The lon- allele, known to increase the radiation sensitivity of the cytokinesis mechanism, was introduced into the mutant by means of conjugation. Cells of this re-combinant strain grew, after exposure to radiation, into giant amorphous cells, approximately 500 to 1,000 times the volume of a normal E. coli cell. These giant cells are analogous to the filaments formed after the irradiation of lon- fod shaped cells.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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