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. 1988 Apr;86(4):987–989. doi: 10.1104/pp.86.4.987

Missense Mutation in the Chlamydomonas Chloroplast Gene that Encodes the Rubisco Large Subunit 1

Robert J Spreitzer 1, Tracy Brown 1,2, Zhixiang Chen 1, Donghong Zhang 1, Souhail R Al-Abed 1
PMCID: PMC1054612  PMID: 16666076

Abstract

The 69-12Q mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii lacks ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase activity, but retains holoenzyme protein. It results from a mutation in the chloroplast large-subunit gene that causes an isoleucine-for-threonine substitution at amino-acid residue 173. Considering that lysine-175 is involved in catalysis, it appears that mutations cluster at the active site.

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