6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in the housefly,Musca domesticaL.: Evidence for inheritable 6PGD polymorphism
✍ Scribed by G. Gasperi; A. Malacrida; R. Milani
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-2928
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✦ Synopsis
Two electrophoretic variants of the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6 PGD) enzyme have been found in the WHO/IN/Musca domestica/l housefly laboratory strain. The patterns shown by Cellogel zone electrophoresis can be fully explained by the hypothesis of two codominant autosomal alleles. On this hypothesis, a specific Pgd locus has been postulated and the symbols PgdA and PgdB have been assigned to the two alleles causing the PGD-A and PGD-B phenotypes. The bands corresponding to the homozygous phenotypes PGD-A and PGD-B have different electrophoretic mobility and staining intensity; they can be described, respectively, as "fast-weak" and "slow-thick." The heterozygous phenotype PGD-AB gives a three-banded pattern, indicative of a dimeric structure for this enzyme; this pattern is asymmetrical. Heterozygous flies have been found both among wild-type strains of recent colonization and among old established laboratory colonies. Most strains are PgdB monomorphic; up to now only three strains have been PgdA monomorphic, all of them being multimarker strains. The Pgd locus has been traced to the housefly linkage group III.