Nutritional control of xanthine dehydrogenase. II. Effects on xanthine dehydrogenase and aldehyde oxidase of culturing wild-type and mutantDrosophilaon different levels of molybdenum
✍ Scribed by E. J. Duke; D. R. Rushing; E. Glassman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 674 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-2928
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✦ Synopsis
Two new mutants, deficient in aldehyde oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase, have been isolated from a wild-type stock of Drosophila melanogaster and have been provisionally termed lxd e and lxd d, respectively, as both mutants appear to be allelic with lxd (low xanthine dehydrogenase). An analysis has been made of the effects of dietary molybdenum on lxd, lxd c, lxd ~, lao (low aldehyde oxidase), real (maroon-like eye color), and pac (Pacific) wild-type flies. On the lower dietary levels of 10 -3 M and 10 -2 M molybdenum, increases in specific activity of both enzymes were observed only in lxd. Furthermore, two-to threefold increases in specific activity of both enzymes occurred in all strains, except real, when cultured on 5 × 10 -2 M molybdenum. The lxd and lxd c strains failed to survive on this high concentration of the ion. Similar concentrations of molybdenum had no effect in vitro. An extra electrophoretic band of xanthine dehydrogenase was observed on ~olyaerylamide gel from extracts of wild-type flies cultured on certain levels of molybdenum, but its appearance was not always correlated with the increases in specific activity.