RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 <em>Ostreococcus</em> tauri is cobalamin-independent
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 065771
DO 10.1101/065771
A1 Mark Paul Pašek
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/26/065771.abstract
AB The marine microalga Ostreococcus is considered to depend on the methionine synthase METH and its methylated cobalamin cofactor for methionine synthesis. Here I describe minimal media lacking both cobalt and cobalamin yet suitable for clonal growth of Ostreococcus tauri. Because Ostreococcus lacks the methylcobalamin-independent methionine synthase METE, Ostreococcus growth without cobalamin is unexplained.