CC-4476 tla2- FtsY (CW15+) mt+
$30.00
From Tasios Melis, University of California, Berkeley, October 2011
Phenotype: somewhat chlorophyll deficient
This strain was derived upon crosses of tla2- FtsY (cw15) mt+ with a cell wall-containing wild type. The tla2- FtsY CW+ has a lower Chl per cell content and higher Chl a / Chl b ratio than corresponding wild type. Physiological analyses revealed a higher intensity for the saturation of photosynthesis and greater Pmax values in the mutant than in the wild type. Biochemical analyses showed that the tla2- FtsY CW+ strain was deficient in the Chl a-b light harvesting complex (LHC), and had a smaller Chl antenna size of the photosystems.
Kirst H, García-Cerdán JG, Zurbriggen A, Melis A (2012) Assembly of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requires expression of the TLA2-CpFTSY gene. Plant Physiol 158:930-45