non-chromosomal DNA

[Elizabeth Harris]

In article <ahouse-110593093610 at 129.64.1.172>,
ahouse at hydra.rose.brandeis.edu (Jeremy John Ahouse) wrote:
> 
> Aside from chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA has anyone heard of other
> extra-nuclear (or extra-chromosomal) DNA in eukaryotes?
> 


There is a controversy over whether there is basal body DNA in
Chlamydomonas:


Hall, J.L., Z. Ramanis, and D.J.L. Luck (1989).  Basal body/centriolar DNA:
molecular genetic studies in Chlamydomonas.  Cell 59, 121-132.

Goodenough, U.W. (1989).  Basal body chromosomes? Cell 59, 1-3.

Hyams, J.S. (1989).  Firm base for basal body DNA.  Nature 341, 485-486.

Kuroiwa, T., T. Yorihuzi, N. Yabe, T. Ohta, and H. Uchida (1990).  Absence
of DNA in the basal body of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by fluorimetry using
a video-intensified microscope photon-counting system.  Protoplasma  158,
155-164.

Johnson, K.A., and Rosenbaum, J.L. (1990).  The basal bodies of
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii do not contain immunologically detectable DNA. 
Cell 62, 339-346.

Johnson, D.E., and S.K. Dutcher (1991).  Molecular studies of linkage group
XIX of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Evidence against a basal body location. 
J. Cell Biol. 113, 339-346.

Johnson, K.A., and J.L. Rosenbaum (1992).  Replication of basal bodies and
centrioles.  Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 4, 80-85.


Elizabeth Harris
chlamy at acpub.duke.edu