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. 2000 May;182(9):2559–2566. doi: 10.1128/jb.182.9.2559-2566.2000

TABLE 3.

Substrate specificity of rAlaAT toward various amino acids with α-ketoglutarate or pyruvate as the amino acceptor

Amino acid Relative activity (%)a
α-Ketoglutarate Pyruvate
Alanine 100
Glutamate 100
Aspartate 14 10
Valine 4 <0.1
Isoleucine 4 <0.1
Leucine 4 <0.1
Tyrosine <0.1 <0.1
Phenylalanine <0.1 <0.1
a

For α-ketoglutarate, 100% activity is 150 U/mg, and for pyruvate, 100% activity is 180 U/mg.