| Value |
2
mm
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| Organism |
Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Reference |
Yanamoto T, Miyamoto A, Ikeda K, Hatano T, Matsuzaki H. The relationship between chromosomal positioning within the nucleus and the SSD1 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2011 75(9):1713-21 p.1713 left column top paragraphPubMed ID21897045
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| Primary Source |
Wente, Gasse and Caplan "The molecular and cellular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces, volume 3 cell cycle and cell biology", eds. Pringle, Broach and Jones, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor pp.471-546 (1997) |
| Comments |
In eukaryotic cells, very large chromosomal DNAs are efficiently packed within the nucleus. A haploid cell of the budding yeast S. cerevisiae contains 16 chromosomal DNAs with a total length of ~14Mb, equivalent to 5mm (primary source). |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
107328 |