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Mutations Affecting the Mitochondrial Genes Encoding the Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I and Apocytochrome B of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii
Colin, Martine; Dorthu, M. P.; Duby, Franceline et al.
1995In Molecular and General Genetics, 249 (2), p. 179-84
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Keywords :
Chlamydomonas; Mitochondrial genetics; Cytochrome c oxidase; Apocytochrome B
Abstract :
[en] Mitochondrial mutants of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that are inactivated in the cytochrome pathway of respiration have previously been isolated. Despite the fact that the alternative oxidase pathway is still active the mutants have lost the capacity to grow heterotrophically (dark + acetate) and display reduced growth under mixotrophic conditions (light + acetate). In crosses between wild-type and mutant cells, the meiotic progeny only inherit the character transmitted by the mt- parent, which indicates that the mutations are located in the 15.8 kb linear mitochondrial genome. Two new mutants (dum-18 and dum-19) have now been isolated and characterized genetically, biochemically and at the molecular level. In addition, two previously isolated mutants (dum-11 and dum-15) were characterized in more detail. dum-11 contains two types of deleted mitochondrial DNA molecules: 15.1 kb monomers lacking the subterminal part of the genome, downstream of codon 147 of the apocytochrome b (COB) gene, and dimers resulting from head-to-head fusion of asymmetrically deleted monomers (15.1 and 9.5 kb DNA molecules, respectively). As in the wild type, the three other mutants contain only 15.8 kb mitochondrial DNA molecules. dum-15 is mutated at codon 140 of the COB gene, a serine (TCT) being changed into a tyrosine (TAC). dum-18 and dum-19 both inactivate cytochrome c oxidase, as a result of frameshift mutations (addition or deletion of 1 bp) at codons 145 and 152, respectively, of the COX1 gene encoding subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase. In a total of ten respiratory deficient mitochondrial mutants characterized thus far, only mutations located in COB or COX1 have been isolated.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Disciplines :
Genetics & genetic processes
Author, co-author :
Colin, Martine ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Bloc opératoire - urologie - chirurgie abdominale
Dorthu, M. P.
Duby, Franceline ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Biologie moléculaire et biotechnologie végétales
Remacle, Claire  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Génétique
Dinant, M.
Wolwertz, M. R.
Duyckaerts, Claire ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de l'oxygène : Recherche et développement (C.O.R.D.)
Sluse, Francis ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Bioénergétique et physiologie cellulaire
Matagne, René-Fernand ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté des sciences) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Sciences)
Language :
English
Title :
Mutations Affecting the Mitochondrial Genes Encoding the Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I and Apocytochrome B of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii
Publication date :
15 November 1995
Journal title :
Molecular and General Genetics
ISSN :
0026-8925
Publisher :
Springer, Germany
Volume :
249
Issue :
2
Pages :
179-84
Peer reviewed :
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