An intergenic alcohol dehydrogenase isozyme in sunflowers |
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Authors: | Andrew M. Torres |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Botany, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas |
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Abstract: | The isozymes of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; E.C. 1.1.1.1) in wild and cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds can be resolved electrophoretically into 12 bands. The slowest- and probably the fastest-migrating sets of three are allozymic products of two genes, Adh1 and Adh2, each having two alleles, F (for fast) and S (for slow). Evidence from dissociation-recombination experiments utilizing bands excised from starch gels indicates that an intermediately-migrating isozyme is a dimeric intergenic product consisting of ADH-1F and ADH-2S subunits. The hybrid isozyme was unstable in vitro in that its monomers spontaneously dissociated and recombined to produce ADH-1FF and ADH-2SS isozymes. The molecular weights of the hybrid as well as the parental isozymes were estimated at approximately 98,000.Supported by a Graduate School Research grant of the University of Kansas and by NSF grant GB-35853. |
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Keywords: | sunflowers alcohol dehydrogenase intergenic isozymes dissociation-recombination |
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