Table 3.

Bacterial strains used in this study

Strain	Genotype	Reference
Bacillus subtilis
PY79	Wild type	Youngman et al. 1984
KP7	spoIID298	Lopez-Diaz et al. 1986
KP38	amyE::spoIID38Ωkan, spoIID298	This study
KP39	amyE::spoIID39Ωkan, spoIID298	This study
KP519	spoIIM::Tn917	Sandman et al. 1987
KP555	thr::cotD-lacZΩmls, cotE-gfpΩkan	Sharp and Pogliano 1999
KP621	spoIIP95-2, thr::cotD-lacZΩmls, cotE-gfpΩkan	This study
KP718	amyE::spoIIDΩkan, spoIID298	This study
KP719	spoIIP::tet	Frandsen and Stragier 1995
KP720	amyE::gfp-spoIIDΩcat, spoIID298	This study
KP721	amyE::gfp-spoIIMΩcat, spoIIM::Tn917	This study
KP722	amyE::gfp-spoIIPΩcat, spoIIP::tet	This study
Escherichia coli
KJ622	Strain TG1, pcnB uvc24-1	This study