A mating type-linked mutation that disrupts the uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA also disrupts cell-size control in Chlamydomonas.

AUTOR(ES)

Armbrust, E V

RESUMO

An intriguing feature of early zygote development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the active elimination of chloroplast DNA from the mating-type minus parent due presumably to the action of a zygote-specific nuclease. Meiotic progeny thus inherit chloroplast DNA almost exclusively from the mating-type plus parent. The plus-linked nuclear mutation mat3 prevents this selective destruction of minus chloroplast DNA and generates progeny that display a biparental inheritance pattern. Here we show that the mat3 mutation creates additional phenotypes not previously described: the cells are much smaller than wild type and they possess substantially reduced amounts of both mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA. We propose that the primary defect of the mat3 mutation is a disruption of cell-size control and that the inhibition of the uniparental transmission of chloroplast genomes is a secondary consequence of the reduced amount of chloroplast DNA in the mat3 parent.

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