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Chlamydomonas nuclear mutants that fail to assemble respiratory or photosynthetic electron transfer complexes
F J Lown1, A T Watson, S Purton
1Department of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Biochemical Society Transactions
|August 11, 2001
Abstract:
We are using a molecular-genetic approach to investigate the role of nuclear genes in the biogenesis of the electron transfer complexes of mitochondria and chloroplasts. Our analysis of nuclear mutants of the green alga Chlamydomonas that are defective in respiration or photosynthesis has led to the identification of genes encoding factors required for the expression of specific organellar genes, and genes encoding structural components of the complexes.