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Journal of Bacteriology, November 1998, p. 6048-6051, Vol. 180, No. 22
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Effect of minCD on FtsZ Ring Position and Polar Septation in Bacillus subtilis

Petra Anne Levin, John Jaeyoung Shim, and Alan D. Grossman*

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 12 May 1998/Accepted 9 September 1998

We examined the pattern of FtsZ localization in a Bacillus subtilis minCD mutant. When grown in minimal medium, the majority (~89%) of the minCD mutant cells with an FtsZ ring had a single, medially positioned FtsZ ring. These results indicate that genes in addition to minCD function to restrict the number and position of FtsZ rings. When grown in rich medium, greater than 50% of the minCD mutant cells had multiple FtsZ rings, indicating significant differences in regulation of FtsZ ring formation based on growth medium.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Bldg. 68-530, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Phone: (617) 253-1515. Fax: (617) 253-2643. E-mail: adg{at}mit.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, November 1998, p. 6048-6051, Vol. 180, No. 22
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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