TABLE 2.

Effects of deletion mutations in divJ on DivJ-GFP localization, growth, and viability^a

Strain	Relevant genotype	DivJ-GFP foci at stalk poles (%)b	Doubling time (min)	Relative viability
CB15	Parent strain	NA	105	1.0
PC9808	CB15/pTR100	NA	118	0.71
PC3017	divJ::Ω	NA	123	0.56
PC9809	divJ::Ω/pTR100	NA	169	0.42
PC9810	divJ::Ω/pdivJ-gfp	72	124	0.68
PC9814	divJ::Ω/pdivJ1-1668-gfp (DivJ1-557)	75	116	0.60
PC9812	divJ::Ω/pdivJ1-975-gfp (DivJ1-326)	66	152	0.40
PC9813	divJ::Ω/pdivJ1-735-gfp (DivJ1-245)	<1	168	0.40
PC9879	divJ::Ω/pdivJΔ811-936 (DivJΔ271-312)	4	124	0.62
PC9880	divJ::Ω/pdivJΔ751-936 (DivJΔ251-312)	2	123	0.62

^aStrains were grown and plated on PYE medium with antibiotics as appropriate. Results presented are the averages from three to five experiments. For DivJ-GFP scoring, over 200 cells were scored per strain. See Materials and Methods for details.

^bNA, not applicable.