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In the course of obtaining their confession, however, Pakistani authorities allegedly starved this co-conspirator and threatened his pregnant wife.
In iron starved conditions, bacterial growth rate is reduced and morphological changes such as filament formation takes place which suggests an inhibition of DNA synthesis or cell division [ 21 22 ] . Besides these the concentration of the proteins whose synthesis is regulated by iron are also observed to get changed [ 23 ] .
Thus, after microinjection, the cells were grown in medium supplemented with serum for 4 to 6 hours and then serum starved overnight to cause the redistribution of GR-GFP.
The mechanism of sensing the density of starved cells insures that aggregation occurs only when there are sufficient numbers of starved cells to form aggregates and subsequent structures of appropriate size for optimized spore dispersal [ 2 3 4 ] . Hence, starvation and a threshold of cell density are the two known prerequisites for the transition from growth to development.
It ended in a profitable marriage alliance with the Greeks, but later Chandragupta turned to more sober thoughts: he converted to Jainism, and finally starved to death at the temple of Sravanabelagola.