FIG. 1.

One-day infected primary gingival epithelial cells (actin-red, nuclei-blue) harboring a high number of intracellular Porphyromonas gingivalis bacteria (green) undergo successful mitosis as determined by confocal scanning fluorescence microscopy. White arrows indicate the division of parent nucleus into two daughter nuclei. Scale bar = 10 μm. (This figure is reproduced from Yilmaz, 2008, with permission from Microbiology, Society for General Microbiology.) Color images available online at www.liebertonline.com/dna.