CC-846 cw1 mt-

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Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), January 1980

Phenotype: wall deficient

This is one of the original cell wall deficient mutants isolated by Davies and colleagues, in the 137c background. Davies included cw1 in his class A: cell walls are produced in more or less normal amounts, but are not attached to the plasmalemma.

Like other wall-deficient mutants, cw1 forms flat, liquid colonies on agar, and the cells lyse in a 1% solution of the nonionic detergent NP-40.


Hyams J, Davies DR (1972) The induction and characterization of cell wall mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardi. Mut Res 14:381-389

Voigt J, Hinkelmann B, Harris EH (1997) Production of cell wall polypeptides by different cell wall mutants of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Microbiol Res 152:189-198