Table 1.

Intracellular localization of fluorescent oriC foci

Type of cellsa	Classification of cell length (μm)	Average cell length (μm) (L)	Average position of one-quarter (μm) (L) × 1/4	Distance of a focus from a pole (μm)			Number of sample cells
				left	right	average
1	1.0 ⩽ C.L. < 1.5	1.35 ± 0.02	0.34	0.39 ± 0.03			126
	1.0 ⩽ C.L. < 2.0	1.63 ± 0.02	0.41	0.42 ± 0.04			72
	total cells	1.45 ± 0.03	0.36	0.40 ± 0.02			198
2	1.0 ⩽ C.L. < 1.5	1.35 ± 0.03	0.34	0.28 ± 0.04	0.47 ± 0.06	0.38 ± 0.01	36
	1.5 ⩽ C.L. < 2.0	1.75 ± 0.02	0.43	0.30 ± 0.03	0.47 ± 0.04	0.39 ± 0.03	86
	2.0 ⩽ C.L. < 2.5	2.23 ± 0.02	0.56	0.37 ± 0.04	0.55 ± 0.04	0.46 ± 0.03	65
	2.5 ⩽ C.L. < 3.0	2.71 ± 0.06	0.68	0.44 ± 0.10	0.60 ± 0.09	0.52 ± 0.07	13
	total cells	1.90 ± 0.06	0.48	0.33 ± 0.02	0.51 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.02	200

^aType 1 of cells had one fluorescent oriC focus; type 2 of cells had two fluorescent oriC foci.