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. 1979 Nov;140(2):730–733. doi: 10.1128/jb.140.2.730-733.1979

Completed Bacillus subtilis nucleoid as a doublet structure.

T McGinness, R G Wake
PMCID: PMC216703  PMID: 115848

Abstract

When outgrowing spores of the temperature-sensitive dna initiation mutants of Bacillus subtilis, TsB134 and dna-1, were allowed to undergo a single round of replication by shifting to the restrictive temperature soon after its initiation, both segregating daughter nucleoids appeared as clearly defined doublet structures. The components of each doublet remained together as a discrete pair, even under conditions which resulted in the formation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-less cells. A doublet nucleoid was also observed at a high frequency when TsB134 spores were allowed to germinate and grow out in the complete absence of DNA synthesis at the permissive temperature. TsB134 spores were foud to contain the usual "haploid" amount of DNA. It is suggested that the doublet nucleoid reflects a folding of a single chromosome into two large domains which resolve from one another under conditions of cell extension in the absence of DNA synthesis.

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