Table 2.

Origin and terminus foci in wild-type and mutant cells

Strain	Ter	OriC foci/cell*
		0	1	2	>2
MC1000	0	0.01	0.02	0.06
	1	0.004	0.13	0.63	0.15
	2			0.01
∆mreB	0	0.12	0.16	0.15	0.14
	1	0.01	0.03	0.15	0.14
	2		0.01	0.06
	>2				0.01
∆mreC	0	0.01	0.06	0.10	0.11
	1	0.02	0.06	0.16	0.42
	2		0.01	0.01	0.02
	>2			0.01
∆mreD	0	0.04	0.13	0.17	0.10
	1	0.02	0.05	0.16	0.29
	2			0.01	0.04

*For each strain, Ter and OriC foci are indicated as number of cells that contained the indicated number of foci/total of number of cells. Terminus (Ter) and origin (OriC) foci were determined from Yfp-TetR and Cfp-LacI fluorescence (materials and methods).