CC-2653 rbcL (nonsense mutation) [Spreitzer 18-7G]

$30.00

From Robert Spreitzer, University of Nebraska, to N.W. Gillham and J.E. Boynton, added to public colllection 1991

Phenotype: requires acetate

This is Spreitzer’s strain 18-7G-12. The mutation is a UGG > UAG change near the 5′ end of the gene, resulting in a 65-aa polypeptide.


Spreitzer RJ, Goldschmidt-Clermont M, Rahire M, Rochaix JD (1985) Nonsense mutations in the Chlamydomonas chloroplast gene that codes for the large subunit of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 82:5460-5464

Yu W, Spreitzer RJ (1992) Chloroplast heteroplasmicity is stabilized by an amber-suppressor tryptophan tRNA(CUA). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:3904-3907


  • Locus:
  • rbcL
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast