CC-267 sr-u-sm5 mt+

$30.00

From Ruth Sager, Hunter College, March 1975

Phenotype: antibiotic resistant (streptomycin)

This is the primary stock of sr-u-sm5 in the Chlamydomonas Resource Center collection. Other streptomycin resistance mutations, notably sr-u-2-60, have been more frequently used in crosses for chloroplast genetics, however. This mutant has an alteration in the ’912′ region of the 16S rRNA molecule (A -> C at nt 858, corresponding to E. coli 914).

Like most of Sager’s strains, CC-267 grows on nitrate as sole N source (indicated by the nit+ or NIT allele designation). This property is in contrast to most strains from the Ebersold/Levine background, which carry the nit1 and nit2 mutations.


Sager R and Ramanis Z (1976) Chloroplast genetics of chlamydomonas. I. Allelic segregation ratios. Genetics 83:303-321

Harris EH, Burkhart BD, Gillham NW, Boynton JE (1989) Antibiotic resistance mutations in the chloroplast 16S and 23S rRNA genes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: correlation of genetic and physical maps of the chloroplast genome. Genetics 123:281-292


  • Locus:
  • rrnS
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast