Reassociation Kinetics of Nuclear DNA from Physarum polycephalum

Abstract

Nuclear DNA of Physarum is made up of 45% repeated (c0t1/2= 0.07–0.7 mol · 1−1· s) and 55% non-repeated base sequences (c0t1/2= 500–1100 mol · 1−1· s) and has a complexity of 130 times the Escherichia coli genome. DNA replicated early in the S phase of the cell cycle, contains few repeated base sequences (below 10%).