Genetic analysis of essential genes in the ftsE region of the Escherichia coli genetic map and identification of a new cell division gene, ftsS.
Several conditional lethal mutants of Escherichia coli have been analysed genetically using generalized transduction and lambda transducing vectors. Three temperature-sensitive ftsE mutants were found as was a cold-sensitive ftsE mutant. A new gene was found which mapped close to ftsE, namely ftsS. Both cell division genes map close to the gene which controls the heat-shock regulon (htpR).
D002455:Cell Division; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005804:Genes, Lethal; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D013696:Temperature; D014161:Transduction, Genetic