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The final metabolic step in the production of the amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine is a transamination reaction catalyzed by the enzyme branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase (BCAT). Using complementation of an Escherichia coli ilvE mutant we have isolated two different cDNAs from potato (Solanum tuberosum) encoding for BCAT (BCAT1 and BCAT2). BCAT1 and BCAT2 were 86<space>% identical...