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A Whiff of... Replication – Atribacter laminatus
by Christoph — When microbiologists describe a previously unknown bacterium, they are mainly interested in its lifestyle, metabolism, morphology and cell cycle. For me, "getting to know" a newbie always involves – let's call it an addiction – reading its genome sequence and finding out how it initiates the replication of its chromosome(s).
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![Confocal-laser microscopy showing the localization of DNA and RNA within the intracytoplasmic membrane structure. DNA, RNA, and membrane lipids were stained by Hoechst (blue), SYTO RNAselect (green) and FM4-64 (red), respectively. Outlines of the cell from a are included in all panels. a Phase contrast image. b–d Confocal-laser images. Scale bars, 1 μm. [Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33318506/]](https://static.mstdn.science/media_attachments/files/112/212/066/520/795/904/original/e111218bb9092185.png "Confocal-laser microscopy showing the localization of DNA and RNA within the intracytoplasmic membrane structure. DNA, RNA, and membrane lipids were stained by Hoechst (blue), SYTO RNAselect (green) and FM4-64 (red), respectively. Outlines of the cell from a are included in all panels. a Phase contrast image. b–d Confocal-laser images. Scale bars, 1 μm. [Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33318506/]")