Metallophosphoesterases of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Analyses Their Transcription Levels Under Phosphate Deficiency

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga, which has been used as a reference organism for identifying proteins. Five hundred hypothetical proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been sequenced for knowing functions of the proteins in their families. Functions of Five hundred hypothetical proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii were predicted using bioinformatics web tools. The web...

We have constructed a physical and gene map for the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas gelatinosa, a close relative of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. At 285 kb, the C. gelatinosa cpDNA is 89 kb larger than its C. reinhardtii counterpart. The alterations in the order of 77 genes on the cpDNAs of these green algae are attributable to nine inversions and one event of e...

High-speed imaging and simulations show that the single-celled organism called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii beats its flagella on separate planes, explaining how it generates helical movement.

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Sustained H 2 photoproduction by green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is achieved under pulse-illumination superimposed on continuous low background light. Pulse-illuminated algae act as biocatalysts producing via direct water biophotolysis.

When populations are exposed to novel conditions of growth, they often become adapted to a similar extent, and at the same time, evolve some degree of impairment in their original environment. They may also come to vary widely with respect to characters which are uncorrelated with fitness, as the result of chance genetic associations among the founders, when these are a small sample from a larg...

amorpha-4,11-diene synthase (ads) is a key enzyme in biochemical pathway of the antimalarial agent artemisinin. an agrobacterium-mediated transformation was carried out to express a synthetic ads gene in green microalga chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain 125c with bacterial strains gv3101 and lba4404. the foreign gene was optimized based on codon usage bias of the microalga. integration of the ad...

The properties of mixtures of genotypes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii were investigated by growing them in monoculture and in all possible pairwise combinations in chemically defined axenic medium. Two sets of genotypes produced by crossing wild-type isolates were cultured in each of two physical environments. Mixtures were consistently more productive and less variable over environments than we...