Initiation of chromosome replication controls both division and replication cycles in E. coli through a double-adder mechanism.

ABSTRACT: Living cells proliferate by completing and coordinating two cycles, a division cycle controlling cell size and a DNA replication cycle controlling the number of chromosomal copies. It remains unclear how bacteria such as Escherichia coli tightly coordinate those two cycles across a wide range of growth conditions. Here, we used time-lapse microscopy in combination with microfluidics to measure growth, division and replication in single E. coli cells in both slow and fast growth conditions. To compare different phenomenological cell cycle models, we introduce a statistical framework assessing their ability to capture the correlation structure observed in the data. In combination with stochastic simulations, our data indicate that the cell cycle is driven from one initiation ev

SUBMITTER: Witz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6890467 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature