[Cytochemical study of free-living flagellates of suborder Bodonina. I. Morphology and nucleic acids].
Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) have been discovered in the kinetoplast of free-living Bodonina: Bodo caudatus, Pleuromonas jaculans, Rhynchomonas nasuta--by means of cytochemical methods. The kinetoplast has variable contents of nucleic acids whose chemoarchitectonics is due to their non-homogeneous distribution within the kinetoplast. The Feulgen reaction in the kinetoplast is more intensive than in the nucleus. Kinetoplast is closely connected with the cytoplasmic RNA metabolism. Many individuals of R. nasuta were found to have two kinetoplasts, no other signs of cell division being observed. P. jaculans has up to 45% of dyskinetoplastic forms.
D000818:Animals; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis*; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000032:analysis / Q000166:cytology*; D012313:RNA / Q000032:analysis*
D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA
Tsitokhimicheskoe issledovanie svobodnozhivushchikh zhgutikovykh podotriada Bodonina. I. Morfologiia i nukleinovnye kisloty.