Howe W E, Mount D W
J Bacteriol. 1979 Apr;138(1):273-4. doi: 10.1128/jb.138.1.273-274.1979.
Distributions of cell lengths in lexA+ and lexA mutant cultures during normal growth and under thymidine starvation conditions are presented. During normal growth lexA mutant cells were slightly shorter, on the average, than were lexA+ cells. lexA mutant cells were also shorter in comparison with lexA+ cells after a period of thymidine starvation. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the lexA gene is involved in the coordination of cell division with DNA repair.
文中呈现了在正常生长以及胸腺嘧啶核苷饥饿条件下,lexA+和lexA突变体培养物中细胞长度的分布情况。在正常生长过程中,lexA突变体细胞平均而言比lexA+细胞略短。经过一段时间的胸腺嘧啶核苷饥饿处理后,与lexA+细胞相比,lexA突变体细胞也更短。这些结果与lexA基因参与细胞分裂与DNA修复的协调这一假设相一致。