CC-11 nic2 mt-

$30.00

From W.T. Ebersold, UCLA, to Boynton-Gillham laboratory, Duke University, 1973

Phenotype: requires nicotinamide

Requires nicotinamide for growth; yeast extract will suffice.
This stock should be scorable as sensitive to 3-acetyl pyridine.

Lin et al. have shown that the NIC2 locus encodes quinolinate phosphoribosyl transferase.


Lin H, Kwan AL, Dutcher SK (2010) Synthesizing and salvaging NAD: lessons learned from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS Genet. 6


  • Locus:
  • NIC2 [QPT1]
  • Chromosome: