A Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein mutant with a truncated beta heavy chain.

doi:10.1083/jcb.122.3.653

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A Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein mutant with a truncated beta heavy chain.

The Journal of cell biology - 1 Aug 1993

Sakakibara H, Takada S, King S M, Witman G B, Kamiya R

Abstract excerpt

A new allele of the Chlamydomonas oda4 flagellar mutant (oda4-s7) possessing abnormal outer dynein arms was isolated. Unlike the previously described oda4 axoneme lacking all three (alpha, beta, and gamma) outer-arm dynein heavy chains, the oda4-s7 axoneme contains the alpha and gamma heavy chain...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Blotting, Western
Centrifugation, Density Gradient
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Dyneins
Flagella
Genes, Protozoan
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Suppression, Genetic

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