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Abstract
Distributions of cell lengths in lexA+ and lexA mutant cultures during normal growth and under thymidine starvation conditions are presented. During normal growth lexA mutant cells were slightly shorter, on the average, than were lexA+ cells. lexA mutant cells were also shorter in comparison with lexA+ cells after a period of thymidine starvation. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the lexA gene is involved in the coordination of cell division with DNA repair.Entities:
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Year: 1979 PMID: 374373 PMCID: PMC218272 DOI: 10.1128/jb.138.1.273-274.1979
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490