Abstract
The nucleoproteins resulting from digestion of the nuclei of the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum with micrococcal nuclease have been resolved according to the size classes in linear sucrose gradients containing 0.5 M NaCl, and analysed for DNA, RNA and protein content. The basic nucleoprotein subunit has been found to contain a DNA fragment of about 150–170 base pairs complexed with an approximately equal amount, on a weight basis, of basic proteins and a relatively small amount of non-histone proteins (about 35% of the amount of DNA). Higher nucleoprotein oligomers were shown to contain spacer DNA fragments between adjacent subunits and a considerably higher ratio of non-histone proteins to DNA than the basic subunit. Both the basic subunit and higher nucleoprotein oligomers of Physarum chromatin contain some amount of tightly bound RNA. However, in contrast to the distribution of the non-histone proteins, the ratio of RNA to DNA is similar in both fractions.
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