Plant Physiology 93:231-237 (1990)
© 1990 American Society of Plant Biologists
Metabolism and Enzymology
A Photorespiratory Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii1
Kensaku Suzuki2,
Laura Fredrick Marek and
Martin H. Spalding
Department of Botany, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
A mutant strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, designated 18-7F, has been isolated and characterized. 18-7F requires a high CO2 concentration for photoautrophic growth in spite of the apparent induction of a functional CO2 concentrating mechanism in air-adapted cells. In 2% O2 the photosynthetic characteristics of 18-7F and wild type are similar. In 21% O2, photosynthetic O2 evolution is severely inhibited in the mutant by preillumination in limiting CO2, although the apparent photosynthetic affinity for inorganic carbon is similar in preilluminated cells and in cells incubated in the dark prior to O2 evolution measurements. Net CO2 uptake is also inhibited when the cells are exposed to air (21% O2, 0.035% CO2, balance N2) for longer than a few minutes. [14C]Phosphoglycolate accumulates within 5 minutes of photosynthetic 14CO2 fixation in cells of 18-7F. Phosphoglycolate does not accumulate in wild type. Phosphoglycolate phosphatase activity in extracts from air-adapted cells of 18-7F is 10 to 20% of that in wild-type Chlamydomonas. The activity of phosphoglycolate phosphatase in heterozygous diploids is intermediate between that of homozygous mutant and wild-type diploids. It was concluded that the high-CO2 requiring phenotype in 18-7F results from a phosphoglycolate phosphatase deficiency. Genetic analyses indicated that this deficiency results from a single-gene, nuclear mutation. We have named the locus pgp-1.
2 Present address: Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan.
1 Supported by grant No. CRCR-1-1591 from the Competitive Research Grants Office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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