CC-1044 F14 mt+

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

Phenotype: requires acetate

F14 is a mutation (W348R) in the chloroplast PsaB RNA-binding protein encoded by the TAB2 locus. This is the only allele whose exact mutation is known, but three other strains, F14, 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:
  • F14 [TAB2]
  • Chromosome:
  • 17