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. 1998 Jul;149(3):1293–1301. doi: 10.1093/genetics/149.3.1293

Tip loci: six Chlamydomonas nuclear suppressors that permit the translocation of proteins with mutant thylakoid signal sequences.

K K Bernd 1, B D Kohorn 1
PMCID: PMC1460232  PMID: 9649521

Abstract

Mutations within the signal sequence of cytochrome f (cytf) in Chlamydomonas inhibit thylakoid membrane protein translocation and render cells nonphotosynthetic. Twenty-seven suppressors of the mutant signal sequences were selected for their ability to restore photoautotrophic growth and these describe six nuclear loci named tip1 through 6 for thylakoid insertion protein. The tip mutations restore the translocation of cytf and are not allele specific, as they suppress a number of different cytf signal sequence mutations. Tip5 and 2 may act early in cytf translocation, while Tip1, 3, 4, and 6 are engaged later. The tip mutations have no phenotype in the absence of a signal sequence mutation and there is genetic interaction between tip4, and tip5 suggesting an interaction of their encoded proteins. As there is overlap in the energetic, biochemical and genetic requirements for the translocation of nuclear and chloroplast-encoded thylakoid proteins, the tip mutations likely identify components of a general thylakoid protein translocation apparatus.

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