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J Bacteriol. 1981 March; 145(3): 1232-1238

Growth rate-dependent control of chromosome replication initiation in Escherichia coli.

G Churchward, E Estiva and H Bremer

ABSTRACT

The initiation mass, defined as cell mass per origin of deoxyribonucleic acid replication (optical density units at 460 nm of culture/origins per milliliter of culture), reflects the intracellular concentration or activity of a hypothetical factor that controls initiation of chromosome replication in bacteria. In Escherichia coli B/r, the initiation mass was found to increase about twofold with increasing growth rate between 0.6 and 1.6 doublings per h; at higher growth rates it remained essentially constant (measured up to 2.4 doublings per h). A low-thymine-requiring (thyA deoB) derivative of E. coli B/r, strain TJK16, was found to have a 60 to 80% greater initiation mass than B/r which was independent of the replication velocity and not related to the thyA and deoB mutations. It is suggested that TJK16 had acquired, during its isolation, a mutation in a gene affecting the initiation of deoxyribonucleic acid replication. The initiation age was not altered by this mutation, but other parameters, including deoxyribonucleic acid concentration and cell size, were changed in comparison with the B/r parent, as expected from theoretical considerations.

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J Bacteriol. 1981 March; 145(3): 1232-1238

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