Abstract
Growth was studied in synchronous cultures of Escherichia coli, using three strains and several rates of cell division. Synchrony was obtained by the Mitchison-Vincent technique. Controls gave no discernible perturbation in growth or rate of cell division. In all cases, mean cell volumes increased linearly (rather than exponentially) during the cycle except possibly for a small period near the end of the cycle. Linear volume growth occurred in synchronous cultures established from cells of different sizes, and also for the first volume doubling of cells prevented from division by a shift up to a more rapid growth rate. As a model for linear kinetics, it is suggested that linear growth represents constant uptake of all major nutrient factors during the cycle, and that constant uptake in turn is established by the presence of a constant number of functional binding or accumulation sites for each growth factor during linear growth of the cell.
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