CC-4696 rbcL∆-MX3312 mt+

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From Robert J. Spreitzer, University of Nebraska, June 2014

Phenotype: requires acetate, sensitive to light

This Rubisco rbcL knock-out mutant was created by Genhai Zhu by replacing chloroplast rbcL of wild-type 2137 mt+ (CC-3269) with aadA (Satagopan and Spreitzer 2004; Zhu et al. 2010). It has been cloned and maintained with acetate medium in darkness since its isolation.


Satagopan S, Spreitzer RJ (2004) Substitutions at the Asp-473 latch residue of Chlamydomonas ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase cause decreases in carboxylation efficiency and CO2/O2 specificity. J Biol Chem 279:14240-14244

Zhu G, Kurek I, Liu L (2010) Engineering photosynthetic enzymes involved in CO2–assimilation by gene shuffling. In CA Rebeiz, C Benning, H Bohnert, H Daniell, JK Hoober, HK Lichtenthaler, AR Portis, BC Tripathy, eds, The Chloroplast: Basics and Applications, Springer, pp 307-322


  • Locus:
  • rbcL
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast