CC-1043 F12 mt-

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From Pierre Bennoun, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, June 1980

Phenotype: requires acetate

F12 is a mutation in the chloroplast PsaB RNA-binding protein encoded by the TAB2 locus. Another mutant, F14, is the only allele at this locus whose exact mutation is known, but F12, F20 and M27 were previously found to be in the same complementation group with F14.


Girard J, Chua NH, Bennoun P, Schmidt G, Delosme M (1980) Studies on mutants deficient in the photosystem I reaction centers in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Curr Genet 2:215-221

Dauvillée D, Stampacchia O, Girard-Bascou J, Rochaix JD (2003) Tab2 is a novel conserved RNA binding protein required for translation of the chloroplast psaB mRNA. EMBO J 22:6378-6388


  • Locus:
  • F12 [TAB2]
  • Chromosome:
  • 17