The heterogeneity and the complexity of Emerson strain Chlorella pyrenoidosa chloroplastic DNA have been investigated by means of thermal denaturation and renaturation kinetics, and the results have been compared with those of the strain 211/8b of the same alga. The thermal denaturation properties are very close to those of the other strain: the Tm of 65 degrees C in 0.1 standard saline citrate, the maximal hyperchromicity of 41%, and the dispersion coefficent delta 2/3 of 6.65 degrees C. The first derivated curves of the melting profiles show also five components. Denatured chloroplastic DNA renatures rapidly. Two fractions are found; their kinetic complexities have been estimated: 1.5 times 10(7) daltons for the fast renaturing fraction; 2x 10(8) daltons for the low d (G + C) content of the chloroplastic DNA: 1.24 times 10(8) daltons). The unique nucleotide sequence is present in about 19 copies per chloroplastic genome. This report confirms the homogeneity of the chloroplastic genome of algae.

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