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. 1997 Feb 20;253(5):649-53.
doi: 10.1007/s004380050368.

A large open reading frame (orf1995) in the chloroplast DNA of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encodes an essential protein

E Boudreau  1 , M Turmel, M Goldschmidt-Clermont, J D Rochaix, S Sivan, A Michaels, S Leu
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A large open reading frame (orf1995) in the chloroplast DNA of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encodes an essential protein

E Boudreau et al. Mol Gen Genet. .

Abstract

An open reading frame potentially encoding a protein of 1995 amino acids (orf1995) has been found in the chloroplast genome of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Besides having a short hydrophobic N-terminal domain with five putative transmembrane helices, the predicted orf1995 product is highly basic. orf1995 might be a homologue of the ycf1 gene in land plants, whose function has not yet been determined. Mutants of C. reinhardtii transformed with a disruption of orf1995 remain heteroplasmic for the wild-type and disrupted alleles of this gene, indicating that the orf1995 product is essential for cell survival.

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