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We have used electrophoretic variants of glutamate-pyruvate transaminase (GPT, E.C. 2.6.1.2) in Drosophila melanogaster to genetically map the structural gene to position 42.6 on the X chromosome. By pseudodominance tests over several deficiencies we have localized it cytogenetically to the interval 11Fl-2 to 12Al-2. The sedimentation constant (s 20,w) of the native enzyme was determined in sucrose density gradients to be 5.9 and the native molecular weight approximately 87,000. The similarity in physical properties to mammalian enzymes suggests that the enzyme may also be dimeric in D. melanogaster.
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Leigh Brown, A.J., Voelker, R.A. Genetic and biochemical studies on glutamate-pyruvate transaminase from Drosophila melanogaster . Biochem Genet 18, 303–309 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484243
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