CC-64 er-u-1a mt+

$30.00

From Lawrence Bogorad to Boynton-Gillham laboratory, Duke University

Phenotype: antibiotic resistant (erythromycin)

This is a good chloroplast marker for erythromycin resistance, and has been used in many crosses. It maps to the 3′ end of the 23S rRNA gene, distal to the intron, and is a C-> T base change in the 23S rRNA at the position equivalent to E. coli 2611.


Mets LJ and Bogorad L (1971) Mendelian and uniparental alterations in erythromycin binding by plastid ribosomes. Science 174:707-709

Harris EH, Burkhart BD, Gillham NW, Boynton JE (1989) Antibiotic resistance mutations in the chloroplast 16S and 23S rRNA genes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: correlation of genetic and physical maps of the chloroplast genome. Genetics 123:281-292


  • Locus:
  • rrnL
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast