| SAG Strain Number: | 1380-1d |
| TAXONOMY |
| Genus: | Porphyridium |
| Species: | purpureum |
| Taxonomic position: | Rhodophyta - Rhodophyceae |
| Authority: | (Bory) Drew et Ross |
| Variety: | |
| Formerly called: | P. cruentum |
| Authentic: | no |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Rhodophyceae |
| Common name: | Red Algae - Rhodophytes |
| ORIGIN |
| General habitat: | marine |
| Climatic zone: | |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Locality: | England, Devon, Brixham Harbour, from marine Ulothrix enrichment culture |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 50.398711 / -3.510543 (400m) View on Google Maps |
| Year: | 1953 |
| Isolated by: | M.R. Droop (legit Emily Clay as P. marinum) |
| Strain number by isolator: | SMBA 70 |
| Deposition by: | M.R. Droop (Millport, Scotland, UK) |
| Deposition date: | 1954 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION |
| Culture medium: | Porph Ag |
| Axenic: | axenic |
| Strain relatives: | CCAP 1380/3 |
| Agitation resistance: | yes |
| Special properties: | NO known Nagoya Protocol restrictions for this strain |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Publication: | Pantazica A.-M. et al. (2025) Red Alga Porphyridium Supports High-Yield Production of a Functional Chimeric Hepatitis B Surface Antigen With Strong Cellular and Humoral Immunogenicity. Plant Biotechnol. J. 23:4829-4843 |
| Publication: | Hammel A. et al. (2024) The red alga Porphyridium as a host for molecular farming: Efficient production of immunologically active hepatitis C virus glycoprotein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (24):e2400145121 |
| Publication: | Hammel A. et al. (2024) Optimized transgene expression in the red alga Porphyridium purpureum and efficient recombinant protein secretion into the culture medium. Plant Mol. Biol. 114 (18) |
| Publication: | Kryvenda A. et al. (2023) Testing for terrestrial and freshwater microalgae productivity under elevated CO2 conditions and nutrient limitation. BMC Plant. Biol. 23:27 |
| Publication: | Li Z. et al. (2018) Replication of bacterial plasmids in the nucleus of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum. Nat. Comm. 9:3451 |
| Publication: | Serive B. et al. (2017) Community analysis of pigment patterns from 37 microalgae strains reveals new carotenoids and porphyrins characteristic of distinct strains and taxonomic. PLOS One 12 (2):e0171872 |
| Publication: | Perrineau M. et al. (2015) Recent mobility of plastid encoded group II introns and twintrons in five strains of the unicellular red alga Porphyridium. PeerJ 3:e1017 |
| Publication: | Goiris K. et al. (2014) Detection of flavonoids in microalgae from different evolutionary lineages. J. Phycol. 50 (3):483-492 |
| Publication: | Mudimu O. et al. (2014) Biotechnological screening of microalgal and cyanobacterial strains for biogas production and antibacterial and antifungal effects. Metabolites 4 (2):373-393 |
| Publication: | Lang I. et al. (2011) Fatty acid profiles and their distribution patterns in microalgae: a comprehensive analysis of more than 2000 strains from the SAG culture collection. BMC Plant Biol 11:124 |
| Publication: | Nultsch W. et al. (1980) Photomovement of the red alga Porphyridium cruentum (Ag.) Naegeli. Arch. Microbiol. 125:181-188 |
| Publication: | Schuchart, Hartwig (1980) Photomovement of the red alga Porphyridium cruentum (Ag.) Naegeli. Archives of Microbiology 128 (1):105-112 |
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| SEQUENCE INFORMATION |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826395 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d Tsf (tsf) gene, partial cds; and putative maturase (mat1i) gene, complete cds; chloroplast. (2501 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826394 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d Ycf46 (ycf46) gene, partial cds; and putative maturase (mat1h) gene, complete cds; chloroplast. (2433 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826389 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d AtpI (atpI) gene, partial cds; chloroplast. (1294 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826385 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d RpoC2 (rpoC2) gene, partial cds; chloroplast. (1292 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826381 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d RpoC2 (rpoC2) gene, partial cds; and putative maturase (mat1e) gene, complete cds; chloroplast. (2545 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826377 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d InfC (infC) gene, partial cds; and putative maturase (mat1c) gene, complete cds; chloroplast. (2437 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826373 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d DnaK (dnaK) gene, partial cds; and putative maturase (mat1b) gene, complete cds; chloroplast. (1821 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KJ826369 Porphyridium purpureum strain SAG 1380-1d AtpB (atpB) gene, partial cds; putative maturase (mat1a) gene, complete cds; and AtpE (atpE) gene, partial cds; chloroplast. (2189 bp) |
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| CRYO |
| Cryopreservation: | not detected |
| TEACHING |
| Recommended for teaching: | no |
