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Direct measurement of femtogram amounts of DNA in cells and chloroplasts by quantitative microspectrofluorometry

ME Lawrence and JV Possingham

Absolute DNA amounts of individual chloroplasts were determined by measuring the fluorescence intensity of chloroplasts stained with 4',6- diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) relative to that of the bacterium Pediococcus damnosus (cerevisiae) smeared on the same slide. An absolute DNA content of 7.7 X 10(15) g for a standard P. damnosus cell type was calculated by comparing the relative fluorescence values and frequency of each stage of cellular development in a culture to the average DNA content of all cell types determined by chemical methods. Chlorophyll was extracted from the chloroplasts during fixation so that chlorophyll autofluorescence was not present when DAPI fluorescence was measured. Absolute amounts of DNA could then be determined for single chloroplasts, either within cells that were individually selected from a mixed cell population or in small preparations of isolated chloroplasts. The DNA amounts of chloroplasts from mesophyll cells determined in this way were similar to the values previously determined by bulk averaging methods. Chloroplast DNA amounts from different cell types of the leaf could be measured by microspectrofluorometry, and it was found that chloroplasts from spinach epidermal cells contained about half as much DNA as chloroplasts from adjacent mesophyll cells.

Volume 34, Issue 6, pp. 761-768, 06/01/1986
Copyright © 1986 by The Histochemical Society


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