CC-848 cw8 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. Davies included cw8 in his class B: cell walls are produced in more or less normal amounts, and are attached to the plasmalemma. The cells are indistinguishable from those of wild type in EM but nevertheless form the flat, liquid colonies typical of wall-deficient mutants and can be lysed in a 1% solution of the nonionic detergent NP-40.

This mutation may be linked and/or allelic with cw1, cw2, and cw19.


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