CC-373 ac-u-c-2-21 (atpB deletion) mt+

$30.00

Hurley Shepherd in Boynton-Gillham laboratory, Duke University, 1979

Phenotype: requires acetate

ac-u-c-2-21 is a deletion mutation in the chloroplast atpB gene. CC-373 is a clean, non-reverting acetate-requiring mutant, and has been widely used as a recipient for chloroplast transformation experiments. For the same mutation in mt-, see CC-728.


Shepherd HS, Boynton JE, Gillham NW (1979) Mutations in nine chloroplast loci of Chlamydomonas affecting different photosynthetic functions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 76:1353-1357

Myers AM, Grant DM, Rabert DK, Harris EH, Boynton JE, Gillham NW (1982) Mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with physical alterations in their chloroplast DNA. Plasmid 7:133-151

Woessner JP, Masson A, Harris EH, Bennoun P, Gillham NW, Boynton JE (1984) Molecular and genetic analysis of the chloroplast ATPase of chlamydomonas. Plant Mol Biol 3:177-190

Boynton JE, Gillham NW, Harris EH, Hosler JP, Johnson AM, Jones AR, Randolph-Anderson BL, Robertson D, Klein TM, Shark KB (1988) Chloroplast transformation in Chlamydomonas with high velocity microprojectiles. Science 240:1534-1538


  • Locus:
  • atpB
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast