Potassium Requirement for Cell Division in Anacystis Nidulans

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1976 Jan 1

PMID 812864

Citations 2

Authors

L O Ingram

E L Thurston

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Abstract

A potassium requirement for growth can be readily demonstrated in the autotrophic blue-green bacterium Anacystis nidulans strain TX20 equivalent to 0.7% of the cellular dry weight. Starvation of this organism for potassium partially dissociates growth from cell division, thereby inducing 50% of the population to form filaments.

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