CC-440 ac-u-c-2-29 (atpB K154N) mt+

$30.00

Hurley Shepherd in Boynton-Gillham laboratory, Duke University

Phenotype: requires acetate

This is a point mutation in the atpB gene, changing Lys 154 to Asn.


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

Robertson D, Woessner JP, Gillham NW, Boynton JE (1989) Molecular characterization of two point mutants in the chloroplast atpB gene of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii defective in assembly of the ATP synthase complex. J Biol Chem 264:2331-2337


  • Locus:
  • atpB
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast