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Triallelic Complementation and the Subunit Structure of Enzymes

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INTERALLELIC complementation makes a genetical approach to the problem of enzyme structure possible. It is expressed as the partial to complete restoration of the normal phenotype in heterocaryons or heterozygotes derived from different allelic mutants. Detection of complementation between alleles of any specific gene suggests that such a gene controls an enzyme with quaternary structure. Moreover, this effect shows that the enzyme contains identical subunits.

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    S. G. INGE-VECHTOMOV & V. V. PAVLENKO

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INGE-VECHTOMOV, S., PAVLENKO, V. Triallelic Complementation and the Subunit Structure of Enzymes. Nature 222, 1078–1079 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221078a0

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