CC-5937 psaA-3::aadA knockout [HNT6]

$30.00

From Saul Purton, University College London, August 2023

Origin: psaA-3::aadA knockout in which part of the psaA-3 coding region and 3’ UTR is replaced with the aadA cassette through chloroplast transformation. Background strain is CC-1690.

Culture maintenance: Acetate-requiring, light-sensitive (ΔPSI mutant) 

Comment:  This strain was created to serve as a recipient for chloroplast transformation where selection is based on restoration of light-insensitivity (and phototrophy) using the WT psaA-3 gene as the marker.  


Taunt HN, Jackson HO, Gunnarsson ÍN, Pervaiz R, Purton S. Accelerating Chloroplast Engineering: A New System for Rapid Generation of Marker-Free Transplastomic Lines of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Microorganisms. 2023 Jul 31;11(8):1967. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11081967. PMID: 37630526; PMCID: PMC10457852.