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Property Organism Value Units ID Details
Mean DNA replication rate Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2.9 (0.5-11) kb/min 110149 Sekedat MD, Fenyö D,...
Mitochondrial DNA mutation rate Human Homo sapiens ~2.7×10^-5 substitutions/site/generation 111228 Schneider S, Excoffier...
Ejection time of DNA Bacteriophage Lambda in vitro ≤10sec: into bacteria (E. coli) 5.2±4.2min N/A 112341 Van Valen D et al., A...
Cell volume & DNA concentration Bacteria Spiroplasma melliferum cell volume 0.02µm^3: DNA concentration 0.052g/mL cell volume N/A 111877 R.T. Dame and C.J. Dorman...
Persistence length of DNA Unspecified in 10 mM Na+ buffer ~53nm: in 80 mM Na+ buffer ~15nm nm 112620 Wang MD et al., Stretching...
Oxidative damages to DNA Mammals rat ~10^5: human ~10^4 oxidative hits/cell/day 112974 Ames BN, Shigenaga MK...
Number of DNA depurinations Human Homo sapiens 2,000-10,000 depurinations/cell/day 112975 Lindahl T. Instability...
Mean DNA content by mass in protozoan cell Eukaryotes 3.2 fg DNA/cell 105853 Dell'Anno A, Danovaro...
Hydrodynamic diameter of DNA double helix Generic 22-26 Å 100666 Mandelkern M, Elias JG...
Endogenous DNA damages in mammalian cells Mammals Table - link DNA damages/cell/day 107472 Editor: Dr. Robert A. Meyers...
Rate of DNA base damage events Unspecified >10,000 Events/cell/day 106953 Jacobs AL, Schär P. DNA...
Speed of ejection of DNA Bacteriophage T5 75 kbp/sec 103135 Mangenot S, Hochrein M...
Typical fraction of intergenic DNA in bacteria & coding DNA in multicellular species Various fraction of intergenic DNA in bacteria <5%: fraction of coding DNA in multicellular species <5% % 112120 Michael Lynch and Georgi...
The number of bases in 1.0µg of DNA Generic 1.71E+15 bases/µg DNA 113034 J F Kukowska-Latallo...
DNA replication speed for one fork Human Homo sapiens 0.6 (0.2-0.9) um/min 104130 Yurov YB, Liapunova NA....
Diffusion coefficient of DNA at interaction site between membrane and plasmid DNA Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) 100 nm^2/sec 106082 Escoffre JM, Portet T...
Processivity of Epstein-Barr virus DNA polymerase Epstein-Barr virus 7200 nucleotides 104117 Tsurumi T. Primer terminus...
Number of atoms in DNA polymerase Bacteriophage RB69 8005 Atoms 103049 Neil R. Voss. 2006 'Geometric...
Calf thymus [CT] DNA density Cow Bos Taurus 1.41 (±0.03) g/cm^3 112352 Śmiałek MA, Jones NC...
Potentially mutagenic lesions in DNA Mammals ~20,000 lesions/diploid cell/day 112657 Preston BD, Albertson TM...