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J Bacteriol. 1977 March; 129(3): 1192-1197

Chromosome replication in Caulobacter crescentus growing in a nutrient broth.

ABSTRACT

The pattern of chromosome replication in the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle was studied by examining the rate of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis during synchronous growth in a fast-growth nutrient broth. As reported previously for the cell cycle in a slow-growth minimal medium (Degnen and Newton, 1972), the Caulobacter cell cycle (at the fastest available growth rate) in nutrient broth consisted of three distinct periods in terms of DNA synthetic activity. The swarmer-cell cycle consisted of a presynthetic period (G1), synthetic period (S), and postsynthetic period (G2) of 30, 50, and 35 min, respectively, whereas the stalked-cell cycle consisted of S and G2 periods of 50 and 35 min, respectively. Synchronously growing cells in the nutrient broth were stained to visualize nuclear bodies. Two nuclear bodies could be discerned in both swarmer and stalked cells, and four could be discerned in predivisional cells. DNA content per cell was determined chemically and found to be about the same in swarmer and stalked cells; it was equivalent to roughly twice the value expected from the kinetic complexity reported previously (Wood et al., 1976) for Caulobacter DNA.