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Figure 2

From: The terminal region of the E. coli chromosome localises at the periphery of the nucleoid

Figure 2

Distributions of foci along the cell diameter. (A) Drawing showing the measurement of the apparent positions of foci along the cell diameter. Distances along the cell diameter between the centres of foci and the nearest membrane were measured. (B) Distributions of foci along the cell diameter for the ori, right and NS-rigth loci in the various cell classes. Distributions are plotted as the percentage of total foci in each cell class (Y-axis). The sample size of the cell classes is given on each graph. The positions of foci were subdivided into five windows corresponding to cell slices of equivalent areas (from 0 at the cell periphery to 0.5 at the cell centre, X-axis). (C) Data from (B) were compiled into single distributions. The percentage of foci in each cell width window is given on the histograms. (D) Examples of simulated distributions. A quarter of a cell section is shown with five cell slices (X-axis). Yellow areas show areas of permitted localisation of foci for each model. The corresponding distributions of foci in the five cell width slices are shown as histograms with the corresponding percentage of total foci.

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