[Restriction map of maxicircle kinetoplastic DNA of Leishmania gymnodactyli].

Kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) of Leishmania gymnodactyli, as in other Trypanosoma species, is a complicated associate consisting of mini- and maxicircular molecules. Minicircular DNA are presented by the homogeneous in size and heterogeneous in base sequence population. Their size determined by the agarose electrophoretic mobility in gel is 920 pairs of nucleotides. Maxicircular molecules of DNA are homogeneous and contains about 38 thou pairs of nucleotides. The restriction map of maxicircular kDNA molecule of L. gymnodactyli has been made up on the basis of the cleavage data of the whole associate kDNA by restrictases.