Gene Expression in Drosophila: Post-translational Modification of Aldehyde Oxidase and Xanthine Dehydrogenase

Overview

Journal Mol Gen Genet

Specialties Genetics
Molecular Biology

Date 1979 Apr 17

PMID 286873

Citations 8

Authors

V Finnerty

M McCarron

G B Johnson

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Abstract

Maroon-like homozygotes are completely deficient for xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) and aldehyde oxidase (AO), however, ma-l is not a structural locus for either enzyme. Quantitative immunoelectrophoresis of ma-l and wild type extracts suggests that the ma-l function must be post-translational. To determine whether the ma-l function involves some direct physical changes in XDH and/or AO the enzymes were characterized with respect to temperature sensitivity and behavior in gel sieving electrophoresis. Since the XDH and AO from complementary ma-l heterozygotes is more thermolabile and different in shape from wild type XDH and AO, we conclude that ma-l is involved in a post-translational modification of these enzymes.

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