Chlamydomonas as a Model Organism.

Making Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii a Better Model Organism: Tackling the Inefficiency of Nuclear Transgene Expression and Improving Methods for the Generation and Characterization of Insertional Mutant Libraries

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FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ENKURIN, A NOVEL FLAGELLAR PROTIEN IMPLICATED IN MOTILITY, USING Chlamydomonas reinhardtii AS A MODEL ORGANISM

Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii possess endogenous sialylated N-glycans

Green algae have a great potential as biofactories for the production of proteins. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a representative of eukaryotic microalgae, has been extensively used as a model organism to study light-induced gene expression, chloroplast biogenesis, photosynthesis, light perception, cell-cell recognition, and cell cycle control. However, little is known about the glycosylation mach...

Adaptive responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

The photosynthetic single cellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been used as a model organism to examine in detail the physiological, biochemical and molecular processes of photosynthesis, flagella synthesis and movement, mineral stress, interactions between nucleus, chloroplasts and mitochondria and other processes. In this review we summarize part of the current knowledge on adaptive re...

Functional genomics of plant photosynthesis in the fast lane using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Oxygenic photosynthesis by algae and plants supports much of life on Earth. Several model organisms are used to study this vital process, but the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii offers significant advantages for the genetic dissection of photosynthesis. Recent experiments with Chlamydomonas have substantially advanced our understanding of several aspects of photosynthesis, incl...

Gene silencing by artificial microRNAs in Chlamydomonas.

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga. It is a model system for studying functions of the chloroplast, basal body and flagella. The completion of the Chlamydomonas genome sequence makes it possible to use reverse genetic approaches in this organism. Chlamydomonas contains a set of endogenous microRNAs (miRNAs) that down-regulate their target gene expression through mRNA cleavage...