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Biol Bull 129: 295-302. (October 1965)
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EVIDENCE FOR TRANSAMINASE ACTIVITY IN THE SLIME MOLD, DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM RAPER

JEROME O. KRIVANEK 1 and ROBIN C. KRIVANEK 1

1 Department of Zoology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620

Progressive chromatography and paper electrophoresis techniques have demonstrated qualitatively the occurrence of two transaminating systems in the slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. These systems are glutamic-aspartic (or glutamic-oxaloacetic) transaminase and glutamic-alanine (or glutamic-pyruvic) transaminase. However, in experiments designed to demonstrate the glutamic-aspartic transaminase, alanine was also produced, indicating the presence of an oxaloacetic-pyruvic decarboxylase. The evidence for transaminases confirms the existence of pathways for the conversion of protein to carbohydrate in the slime mold.






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