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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 12.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2007 Feb;63(4):1008–1025. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05571.x

Table 2.

Cellular parameters of wt and tol-pal mutant cells.

Straina TB28/pTB6 FB20229/pTB6 MG5/pTB6 MG4/pTB6 FB20229/pNP4 MG5/pMG36
Genotype wt/Plac∷TTgfp tolA/Plac∷TTgfp pal/Plac∷TTgfp tolQ-pal/Plac∷TTgfp tolA/Plac∷gfp-tolA pal/Plac∷pal-rfp
Number of cells 343 381 230 290 367 266
Width (SD) in μm 1.33 (0.08) 1.64 (0.11) 1.58 (0.10) 1.57 (0.12) 1.42 (0.09) 1.40 (0.08)
Length (SD) in μm 3.51 (0.73) 3.36 (0.85) 3.12 (0.68) 3.25 (0.73) 3.60 (0.73) 4.24 (0.94)
Length/width 2.64 2.05 1.98 2.07 2.53 3.09
% cells with single constr. 43 60 86 68 44 78
Constriction position (SD) 0.49 (0.03) 0.49 (0.03) 0.48 (0.03) 0.48 (0.03) 0.48 (0.02) 0.49 (0.03)
% cells w. multiple constr. 0 3 1 1 0 0
Number of OM blebs 0 207 246 218 ND 2
% cells with OM blebs 0 44 81 54 ND <1
% of blebs at constr. site NA 42 31 37 ND NA
% of blebs at polar caps NA 53 64 56 ND NA
% of blebs elsewhere NA 5 5 7 ND NA
a

Cells were grown as described in the legends to Figs 3, 6 and 7. Constriction position was determined on cells with a single constriction, and is expressed as a fraction of normalized length.

SD, standard deviation; NA, not applicable; ND, not determined.