CC-2699 cia3

$30.00

From James Moroney, Louisiana State University, April 1992

Phenotype: altered CO2 assimilation

This strain requires 5% CO2 for growth on minimal medium. The cia3 mutation is in the CAH3 carbonic anhydrase gene, and is allelic to ca1 (CC-1219) and to cia4 (CC-2701).


Moroney JV, Tolbert NE, Sears BB (1986) Complementation analysis of the inorganic carbon concentrating mechanism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Mol Gen Genet 204:199-203

Katzman GL, Carlson SJ, Marcus Y, Moroney JV, Togasaki RK (1994) Carbonic Anhydrase Activity in Isolated Chloroplasts of Wild-Type and High-CO2-Dependent Mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as Studied by a New Assay. Plant Physiol 105:1197-1202

**Van Hunnik E and Sültemeyer D (2002) A possible role for carbonic anhydrase in the lumen of chloroplast thylakoids in green algae. Funct. Plant Biol 29:243-249

Hanson DT, Franklin LA, Samuelsson G, Badger MR (2003) The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cia3 mutant lacking a thylakoid lumen-localized carbonic anhydrase is limited by CO2 supply to rubisco and not photosystem II function in vivo. Plant Physiol 132:2267-2275

Duanmu D, Wang Y, Spalding MH (2009) Thylakoid lumen carbonic anhydrase (CAH3) mutation suppresses air-Dier phenotype of LCIB mutant in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol 149:929-937


  • Locus:
  • CAH3
  • Chromosome:
  • 9