CC-3420 ida5 mt+

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From Ritsu Kamiya, University of Tokyo, July 1997

Phenotype: impaired motility

Originally isolated as a mutation affecting the inner dynein arms, ida5 has been shown to affect a structural gene for actin.


Kato T, Kagami O, Yagi T, Kamiya R (1993) Isolation of two species of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii flagellar mutants, ida5 and ida6, that lack a newly identified heavy chain of the inner dynein arm. Cell Struct Funct 18:371-377

Kamiya R (1995a) Exploring the function of inner and outer dynein arms with Chlamydomonas mutants. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 32:98-102

Sugase Y, Hirono M, Kindle KL, Kamiya R (1996) Cloning and characterization of the actin-encoding gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Gene 168:117-121

Kato-Minoura T, Hirono M, Kamiya R (1997) Chlamydomonas inner-arm dynein mutant, ida5, has a mutation in an actin-encoding gene. J Cell Biol 137:649-656

Kato-Minoura T, Uryu S, Hirono M, Kamiya R (1998) Highly divergent actin expressed in a Chlamydomonas mutant lacking the conventional actin gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 251:71-76

Ohara A, Kato-Minoura T, Kamiya R, Hirono M (1998) Recovery of flagellar inner-arm dynein and the fertilization tubule in Chlamydomonas ida5 mutant by transformation with actin genes. Cell Struct Funct 23:273-281


  • Locus:
  • IDA5 [ACTIN, DII4]
  • Chromosome:
  • 13