• Strain #:
  • CC-44 ac29a mt-
  • Description:

  • Boynton-Gillham laboratory, Duke University

    Phenotype: requires acetate, somewhat chlorophyll deficient

    From R.P. Levine, brought to Duke University by N.W. Gillham, 1968
    This strain appears yellow-green in color, especially on minimal medium. The color difference from wild type is rather subtle. The AC29 locus is closely linked to mating type. This allele, ac29a, is linked to mt-, whereas the original ac29 (CC-45) is linked to mt+. For an ac29 strain whose phenotype is easier to score, see CC-3054 ac29-3, a deletion mutant isolated by Patrick Ferris.

    The AC29 locus encodes a protein that is a homolog of the plant protein ALBINO3, which is required for the integration of the light-harvesting complex into the thylakoid membrane.

    Ferris (1995) Genetics 141, 543-549
    Ferris et al. (2002) Genetics 160, 181-200
    Bellafiore et al. (2002) Plant Cell 14, 2303-2314

  • Chromosome:

  • 06

  • Locus:

  • AC29 [ALB3]

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