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Mutations at seven recombinationally distinct chloroplast loci confer antibiotic resistance on chloroplast ribosomes of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Assays of polynucleotide-directed amino acid incorporation by ribosomes reconstituted from mutant and wild type subunits demonstrate that streptomycin, neamine/kanamycin and spectinomycin resistance mutations specifically affect the small ribosomal subunit, whereas mutations to erythromycin resistance affect the large subunit. Although in each case the subunit site of antibiotic resistance is the same as that observed in analogous mutations in Escherichia coli, the number of loci conferring resistance to a given antibiotic differs in the two organisms. We have previously shown that streptomycin resistance mutations in Chlamydomonas map at five discrete loci (one nuclear and four chloroplast), and that mutations to neamine/kanamycin and spectinomycin resistance appear to define a single chloroplast locus. Results presented here confirm our previous report that all chloroplast erythromycin resistance mutations isolated to date fall into two recombinationally distinct loci, and indicate that mutants at one of these loci may be further divided on the basis of their level of cross resistance to other macrolide antibiotics.
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Bartlett, S.G., Harris, E.H., Grabowy, C.T. et al. Ribosomal subunits affected by antibiotic resistance mutations at seven chloroplast loci in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii . Molec. Gen. Genet. 176, 199–208 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273214
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