Effect of cell cycle stages on the central density of Enterococcus faecium ATCC 9790.

AUTOR(ES)

Bourbeau, P

RESUMO

Cultures of Enterococcus faecium growing at various rates were examined for timing of cell division cycle events by using the method of residual divisions and a morphological analysis. Both methods gave essentially the same timing for the onset of D1 (completion of chromosome replication) and of D2 (completion of septation). Frequencies of cells exhibiting a phase-reversed center in bovine serum albumin at various growth rates were determined. The data fit a model in which rapidly growing cells increase in refractive index (which is assumed to represent central density) at completion of the chromosome replication cycle involved in the ongoing division, whereas slowly growing cultures increase in central density at the time of completion of septation. There was no correlation between the timing of increase in central density and the timing of initiation of new sites of surface growth.

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