MINOR COMPONENTS OF THE DNA OF PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM
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- 1 February 1969
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 40 (2) , 484-496
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.40.2.484
Abstract
DNA metabolism in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum was studied by centrifugation in CsCl of lysates of cultures labeled with radioactive thymidine at various times in the cell cycle. During the G(2) (premitotic) phase of the cell cycle, two components of the DNA are labeled. One component is lighter (buoyant density 1.686 g/cc) than the mean of the principal DNA (1.700 g/cc), and one is heavier (approximately 1.706 g/cc). The labeled light DNA was identified chemically by its denaturability, its susceptibility to DNase, and the recovery of its radioactivity in thymine. Cell fractionation studies showed that the heavy and the principal DNA components are located in the nucleus and that the light DNA is in the cytoplasm. The light DNA comprises approximately 10% of the DNA. About (1/3)-(1/2) of the light DNA is synthesized during the S period, and the remainder is synthesized throughout G(2) (there is no G(1) in Physarum). The light DNA is metabolically stable. A low, variable level of incorporation of radioactive thymidine into the principal, nuclear DNA component was observed during G(2).Keywords
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