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Jahnová J, Luhová L, Petřivalský M. S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase-The Master Regulator of Protein S-Nitrosation in Plant NO Signaling. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019. [PMID: 30795534 DOI: 10.3390/plants80200482019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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S-nitrosation has been recognized as an important mechanism of protein posttranslational regulations, based on the attachment of a nitroso group to cysteine thiols. Reversible S-nitrosation, similarly to other redox-base modifications of protein thiols, has a profound effect on protein structure and activity and is considered as a convergence of signaling pathways of reactive nitrogen and oxygen species. In plant, S-nitrosation is involved in a wide array of cellular processes during normal development and stress responses. This review summarizes current knowledge on S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR), a key enzyme which regulates intracellular levels of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) and indirectly also of protein S-nitrosothiols. GSNOR functions are mediated by its enzymatic activity, which catalyzes irreversible GSNO conversion to oxidized glutathione within the cellular catabolism of nitric oxide. GSNOR is involved in the maintenance of balanced levels of reactive nitrogen species and in the control of cellular redox state. Multiple functions of GSNOR in plant development via NO-dependent and -independent signaling mechanisms and in plant defense responses to abiotic and biotic stress conditions have been uncovered. Extensive studies of plants with down- and upregulated GSNOR, together with application of transcriptomics and proteomics approaches, seem promising for new insights into plant S-nitrosothiol metabolism and its regulation.
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- Jana Jahnová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Šlechtitelů 11, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Šlechtitelů 11, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Šlechtitelů 11, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase-The Master Regulator of Protein S-Nitrosation in Plant NO Signaling. PLANTS 2019; 8:plants8020048. [PMID: 30795534 PMCID: PMC6409631 DOI: 10.3390/plants8020048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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S-nitrosation has been recognized as an important mechanism of protein posttranslational regulations, based on the attachment of a nitroso group to cysteine thiols. Reversible S-nitrosation, similarly to other redox-base modifications of protein thiols, has a profound effect on protein structure and activity and is considered as a convergence of signaling pathways of reactive nitrogen and oxygen species. In plant, S-nitrosation is involved in a wide array of cellular processes during normal development and stress responses. This review summarizes current knowledge on S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR), a key enzyme which regulates intracellular levels of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) and indirectly also of protein S-nitrosothiols. GSNOR functions are mediated by its enzymatic activity, which catalyzes irreversible GSNO conversion to oxidized glutathione within the cellular catabolism of nitric oxide. GSNOR is involved in the maintenance of balanced levels of reactive nitrogen species and in the control of cellular redox state. Multiple functions of GSNOR in plant development via NO-dependent and -independent signaling mechanisms and in plant defense responses to abiotic and biotic stress conditions have been uncovered. Extensive studies of plants with down- and upregulated GSNOR, together with application of transcriptomics and proteomics approaches, seem promising for new insights into plant S-nitrosothiol metabolism and its regulation.
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Barnett SD, Buxton ILO. The role of S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR) in human disease and therapy. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2017; 52:340-354. [PMID: 28393572 PMCID: PMC5597050 DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2017.1304353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR), or ADH5, is an enzyme in the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) family. It is unique when compared to other ADH enzymes in that primary short-chain alcohols are not its principle substrate. GSNOR metabolizes S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), S-hydroxymethylglutathione (the spontaneous adduct of formaldehyde and glutathione), and some alcohols. GSNOR modulates reactive nitric oxide (•NO) availability in the cell by catalyzing the breakdown of GSNO, and indirectly regulates S-nitrosothiols (RSNOs) through GSNO-mediated protein S-nitrosation. The dysregulation of GSNOR can significantly alter cellular homeostasis, leading to disease. GSNOR plays an important regulatory role in smooth muscle relaxation, immune function, inflammation, neuronal development and cancer progression, among many other processes. In recent years, the therapeutic inhibition of GSNOR has been investigated to treat asthma, cystic fibrosis and interstitial lung disease (ILD). The direct action of •NO on cellular pathways, as well as the important regulatory role of protein S-nitrosation, is closely tied to GSNOR regulation and defines this enzyme as an important therapeutic target.
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- Scott D Barnett
- a Department of Pharmacology , University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine , Reno , NV , USA
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- a Department of Pharmacology , University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine , Reno , NV , USA
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Dorokhov YL, Shindyapina AV, Sheshukova EV, Komarova TV. Metabolic methanol: molecular pathways and physiological roles. Physiol Rev 2015; 95:603-44. [PMID: 25834233 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00034.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Methanol has been historically considered an exogenous product that leads only to pathological changes in the human body when consumed. However, in normal, healthy individuals, methanol and its short-lived oxidized product, formaldehyde, are naturally occurring compounds whose functions and origins have received limited attention. There are several sources of human physiological methanol. Fruits, vegetables, and alcoholic beverages are likely the main sources of exogenous methanol in the healthy human body. Metabolic methanol may occur as a result of fermentation by gut bacteria and metabolic processes involving S-adenosyl methionine. Regardless of its source, low levels of methanol in the body are maintained by physiological and metabolic clearance mechanisms. Although human blood contains small amounts of methanol and formaldehyde, the content of these molecules increases sharply after receiving even methanol-free ethanol, indicating an endogenous source of the metabolic methanol present at low levels in the blood regulated by a cluster of genes. Recent studies of the pathogenesis of neurological disorders indicate metabolic formaldehyde as a putative causative agent. The detection of increased formaldehyde content in the blood of both neurological patients and the elderly indicates the important role of genetic and biochemical mechanisms of maintaining low levels of methanol and formaldehyde.
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- Yuri L Dorokhov
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
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- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
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- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
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- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
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Kubienová L, Kopečný D, Tylichová M, Briozzo P, Skopalová J, Šebela M, Navrátil M, Tâche R, Luhová L, Barroso JB, Petřivalský M. Structural and functional characterization of a plant S-nitrosoglutathione reductase from Solanum lycopersicum. Biochimie 2012; 95:889-902. [PMID: 23274177 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2012.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 12/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR), also known as S-(hydroxymethyl)glutathione (HMGSH) dehydrogenase, belongs to the large alcohol dehydrogenase superfamily, namely to the class III ADHs. GSNOR catalyses the oxidation of HMGSH to S-formylglutathione using a catalytic zinc and NAD(+) as a coenzyme. The enzyme also catalyses the NADH-dependent reduction of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO). In plants, GSNO has been suggested to serve as a nitric oxide (NO) reservoir locally or possibly as NO donor in distant cells and tissues. NO and NO-related molecules such as S-nitrosothiols (S-NOs) play a central role in the regulation of normal plant physiological processes and host defence. The enzyme thus participates in the cellular homeostasis of S-NOs and in the metabolism of reactive nitrogen species. Although GSNOR has recently been characterized from several organisms, this study represents the first detailed biochemical and structural characterization of a plant GSNOR, that from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). SlGSNOR gene expression is higher in roots and stems compared to leaves of young plants. It is highly expressed in the pistil and stamens and in fruits during ripening. The enzyme is a dimer and preferentially catalyses reduction of GSNO while glutathione and S-methylglutathione behave as non-competitive inhibitors. Using NAD(+), the enzyme oxidizes HMGSH and other alcohols such as cinnamylalcohol, geraniol and ω-hydroxyfatty acids. The crystal structures of the apoenzyme, of the enzyme in complex with NAD(+) and in complex with NADH, solved up to 1.9 Å resolution, represent the first structures of a plant GSNOR. They confirm that the binding of the coenzyme is associated with the active site zinc movement and changes in its coordination. In comparison to the well characterized human GSNOR, plant GSNORs exhibit a difference in the composition of the anion-binding pocket, which negatively influences the affinity for the carboxyl group of ω-hydroxyfatty acids.
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- Lucie Kubienová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 11, CZ-783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Dose-Dependent Change in Elimination Kinetics of Ethanol due to Shift of Dominant Metabolizing Enzyme from ADH 1 (Class I) to ADH 3 (Class III) in Mouse. Int J Hepatol 2012; 2012:408190. [PMID: 22164338 PMCID: PMC3227458 DOI: 10.1155/2012/408190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2011] [Accepted: 08/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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ADH 1 and ADH 3 are major two ADH isozymes in the liver, which participate in systemic alcohol metabolism, mainly distributing in parenchymal and in sinusoidal endothelial cells of the liver, respectively. We investigated how these two ADHs contribute to the elimination kinetics of blood ethanol by administering ethanol to mice at various doses, and by measuring liver ADH activity and liver contents of both ADHs. The normalized AUC (AUC/dose) showed a concave increase with an increase in ethanol dose, inversely correlating with β. CL(T) (dose/AUC) linearly correlated with liver ADH activity and also with both the ADH-1 and -3 contents (mg/kg B.W.). When ADH-1 activity was calculated by multiplying ADH-1 content by its V(max)/mg (4.0) and normalized by the ratio of liver ADH activity of each ethanol dose to that of the control, the theoretical ADH-1 activity decreased dose-dependently, correlating with β. On the other hand, the theoretical ADH-3 activity, which was calculated by subtracting ADH-1 activity from liver ADH activity and normalized, increased dose-dependently, correlating with the normalized AUC. These results suggested that the elimination kinetics of blood ethanol in mice was dose-dependently changed, accompanied by a shift of the dominant metabolizing enzyme from ADH 1 to ADH 3.
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Farazdaghi H. The single-process biochemical reaction of Rubisco: A unified theory and model with the effects of irradiance, CO2 and rate-limiting step on the kinetics of C3 and C4 photosynthesis from gas exchange. Biosystems 2011; 103:265-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2010] [Revised: 11/06/2010] [Accepted: 11/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Staab CA, Hellgren M, Grafström RC, Höög JO. Medium-chain fatty acids and glutathione derivatives as inhibitors of S-nitrosoglutathione reduction mediated by alcohol dehydrogenase 3. Chem Biol Interact 2009; 180:113-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2009.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2008] [Revised: 01/16/2009] [Accepted: 01/19/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Bateman R, Rauh D, Shokat KM. Glutathione traps formaldehyde by formation of a bicyclo[4.4.1]undecane adduct. Org Biomol Chem 2007; 5:3363-7. [PMID: 17912391 PMCID: PMC2932697 DOI: 10.1039/b707602a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Glutathione forms complex reaction products with formaldehyde, which can be further modified through enzymatic modification. We studied the non-enzymatic reaction between glutathione and formaldehyde and identified a bicyclic complex containing two equivalents of formaldehyde and one glutathione molecule by protein X-ray crystallography (PDB accession number 2PFG). We have also used (1)H, (13)C and 2D NMR spectroscopy to confirm the structure of this unusual adduct. The key feature of this adduct is the involvement of the gamma-glutamyl alpha-amine and the Cys thiol in the formation of the bicyclic ring structure. These findings suggest that the structure of GSH allows for bi-dentate masking of the reactivity of formaldehyde. As this species predominates at near physiological pH values, we suggest this adduct may have biological significance.
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- Raynard Bateman
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, 600 16 St., San Francisco, CA, 94143-2280, USA
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program, UCSF, 600 16 St., San Francisco, CA, 94143-2280, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, 600 16 St., San Francisco, CA, 94143-2280, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, 600 16 St., San Francisco, CA, 94143-2280, USA
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Lee SL, Chau GY, Yao CT, Wu CW, Yin SJ. Functional Assessment of Human Alcohol Dehydrogenase Family in Ethanol Metabolism: Significance of First-Pass Metabolism. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2006; 30:1132-42. [PMID: 16792560 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00139.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) is the principal enzyme responsible for ethanol metabolism in mammals. Human ADH constitutes a unique complex enzyme family with no equivalent counterpart in experimental rodents. This study was undertaken to quantitatively assess relative contributions of human ADH isozymes and allozymes to hepatic versus gastric metabolism of ethanol in the context of the entire family. METHODS Kinetic parameters for ethanol oxidation for recombinant human class I ADH1A, ADH1B1, ADH1B2, ADH1B3, ADH1C1, and ADH1C2; class II ADH2; class III ADH3; and class IV ADH4 were determined in 0.1 M sodium phosphate at pH 7.5 over a wide range of substrate concentrations in the presence of 0.5 mM NAD+. The composite numerical formulations for organ steady-state ethanol clearance were established by summing up the kinetic equations of constituent isozymes/allozymes with the assessed contents in livers and gastric mucosae with different genotypes. RESULTS In ADH1B*1 individuals, ADH1B1 and ADH1C allozymes were found to be the major contributors to hepatic-alcohol clearance; ADH2 made a significant contribution only at high ethanol levels (> 20 mM). ADH1B2 was the major hepatic contributor in ADH1B*2 individuals. ADH1C allozymes were the major contributor at low ethanol (< 2 mM), whereas ADH1B3 the major form at higher levels (> 10 mM) in ADH1B*3 individuals. For gastric mucosal-alcohol clearance, the relative contributions of ADH1C allozymes and ADH4 were converse as ethanol concentration increased. It was assessed that livers with ADH1B*1 may eliminate approximately 95% or more of single-passed ethanol as inflow sinusoidal alcohol reaches approximately 1 mM and that stomachs with different ADH1C genotypes may remove 20% to 30% of single-passed alcohol at the similar level in mucosal cells. CONCLUSIONS This work provides just a model, but a strong one, for quantitative assessments of ethanol metabolism in the human liver and stomach. The results indicate that the hepatic-alcohol clearance of ADH1B*2 individuals is higher than that of the ADH1B*1 and those of the ADH1B*3 versus the ADH1B*1 vary depending on sinusoidal ethanol levels. The maximal capacity for potential alcohol first-pass metabolism in the liver is greater than in the stomach.
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- Shou-Lun Lee
- Division of Biotechnology, Animal Technology Institute Taiwan, Chunan, Taiwan
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Gonzalez CF, Proudfoot M, Brown G, Korniyenko Y, Mori H, Savchenko AV, Yakunin AF. Molecular basis of formaldehyde detoxification. Characterization of two S-formylglutathione hydrolases from Escherichia coli, FrmB and YeiG. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:14514-22. [PMID: 16567800 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m600996200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli genes frmB (yaiM) and yeiG encode two uncharacterized proteins that share 54% sequence identity and contain a serine esterase motif. We demonstrated that purified FrmB and YeiG have high carboxylesterase activity against the model substrates, p-nitrophenyl esters of fatty acids (C2-C6) and alpha-naphthyl acetate. However, both proteins had the highest hydrolytic activity toward S-formylglutathione, an intermediate of the glutathione-dependent pathway of formaldehyde detoxification. With this substrate, both proteins had similar affinity (Km = 0.41-0.43 mM), but FrmB was almost 5 times more active. Alanine replacement mutagenesis of YeiG demonstrated that Ser145, Asp233, and His256 are absolutely required for activity, indicating that these residues represent a serine hydrolase catalytic triad in this protein and in other S-formylglutathione hydrolases. This was confirmed by inspecting the crystal structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae S-formylglutathione hydrolase YJG8 (Protein Data Bank code 1pv1), which has 45% sequence identity to YeiG. The structure revealed a canonical alpha/beta-hydrolase fold and a classical serine hydrolase catalytic triad (Ser161, His276, Asp241). In E. coli cells, the expression of frmB was stimulated 45-75 times by the addition of formaldehyde to the growth medium, whereas YeiG was found to be a constitutive enzyme. The simultaneous deletion of both frmB and yeiG genes was required to increase the sensitivity of the growth of E. coli cells to formaldehyde, suggesting that both FrmB and YeiG contribute to the detoxification of formaldehyde. Thus, FrmB and YeiG are S-formylglutathione hydrolases with a Ser-His-Asp catalytic triad involved in the detoxification of formaldehyde in E. coli.
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- Claudio F Gonzalez
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L6, Canada
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Haseba T, Duester G, Shimizu A, Yamamoto I, Kameyama K, Ohno Y. In vivo contribution of Class III alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH3) to alcohol metabolism through activation by cytoplasmic solution hydrophobicity. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2006; 1762:276-83. [PMID: 16431092 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2005.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2005] [Revised: 11/19/2005] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Alcohol metabolism in vivo cannot be explained solely by the action of the classical alcohol dehydrogenase, Class I ADH (ADH1). Over the past three decades, attempts to identify the metabolizing enzymes responsible for the ADH1-independent pathway have focused on the microsomal ethanol oxidizing system (MEOS) and catalase, but have failed to clarify their roles in systemic alcohol metabolism. In this study, we used Adh3-null mutant mice to demonstrate that Class III ADH (ADH3), a ubiquitous enzyme of ancient origin, contributes to alcohol metabolism in vivo dose-dependently resulting in a diminution of acute alcohol intoxication. Although the ethanol oxidation activity of ADH3 in vitro is low due to its very high Km, it was found to exhibit a markedly enhanced catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) toward ethanol when the solution hydrophobicity of the reaction medium was increased with a hydrophobic substance. Confocal laser scanning microscopy with Nile red as a hydrophobic probe revealed a cytoplasmic solution of mouse liver cells to be much more hydrophobic than the buffer solution used for in vitro experiments. So, the in vivo contribution of high-Km ADH3 to alcohol metabolism is likely to involve activation in a hydrophobic solution. Thus, the present study demonstrated that ADH3 plays an important role in systemic ethanol metabolism at higher levels of blood ethanol through activation by cytoplasmic solution hydrophobicity.
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- Takeshi Haseba
- Department of Legal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan.
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Quertemont E. Genetic polymorphism in ethanol metabolism: acetaldehyde contribution to alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Mol Psychiatry 2004; 9:570-81. [PMID: 15164086 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Acetaldehyde, the first product of ethanol metabolism, has been speculated to be involved in many pharmacological and behavioral effects of ethanol. In particular, acetaldehyde has been suggested to contribute to alcohol abuse and alcoholism. In the present paper, we review current data on the role of acetaldehyde and ethanol metabolism in alcohol consumption and abuse. Ethanol metabolism involves several enzymes. Whereas alcohol dehydrogenase metabolizes the bulk of ethanol within the liver, other enzymes, such as cytochrome P4502E1 and catalase, also contributes to the production of acetaldehyde from ethanol oxidation. In turn, acetaldehyde is metabolized by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. In animal studies, acetaldehyde is mainly reinforcing particularly when injected directly into the brain. In humans, genetic polymorphisms of the enzymes alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase are also associated with alcohol drinking habits and the incidence of alcohol abuse. From these human genetic studies, it has been concluded that blood acetaldehyde accumulation induces unpleasant effects that prevent further alcohol drinking. It is therefore speculated that acetaldehyde exerts opposite hedonic effects depending on the localization of its accumulation. In the periphery, acetaldehyde is primarily aversive, whereas brain acetaldehyde is mainly reinforcing. However, the peripheral effects of acetaldehyde might also be dependent upon its peak blood concentrations and its rate of accumulation, with a narrow range of blood acetaldehyde concentrations being reinforcing.
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- E Quertemont
- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Comportementales et Psychopharmacologie, Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium.
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Mi QM, Cao LN, Gao CF. Detection of alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes in liver and serum by electrophoresis in liver disease. Shijie Huaren Xiaohua Zazhi 2003; 11:1175-1177. [DOI: 10.11569/wcjd.v11.i8.1175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM To establish an agarose gel electrophoretic method for detecting alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes in human serum or liver tissue.
METHODS The samples of human liver tissue or serum were electrophoresed with 74 mmol/L diethylbarbital buffer (pH 8.6) of 10 g/L agarose gel. Electrophoresis can separate the Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) isoenzymes to three bands clearly at 20 mA for 20 min in serum.
RESULTS The total ADH activity in serum of sixty-seven patients with liver diseases was ranged from 0.013 Kat/L to 0.021 Kat/L. ADHⅠ isoenzyme was ranged from 0.01 to 0.30 of the total activities . ADH Ⅲ isoenzyme was from 0.12 to 0.31 . ADH Ⅲ was from 0.39 to 0.80. Total ADH activity in liver tissues of ten healthy subjects was ranged from 0.136 Kat/L to 0.196 Kat/L. ADHⅠ isoenzyme was from 0.07 to 0.25 of the total activities. ADH Ⅲ isoenzyme was ranged from 0.19 to 0.27. ADH Ⅲ was from 0.56 to 0.73.
CONCLUSION ADH activity is high in normal human liver. Three ADH isoenzymes can be separated with agarose gel electrophoresis . But serum ADH activity is low. High activities were obtained in serum from persons suffering from serious liver diseases.
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- Qing-Mei Mi
- Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200003, China
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- Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200003, China
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- Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200003, China
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Human class III alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH3), also known as glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase, exhibited non-hyperbolic kinetics with ethanol at a near physiological pH 7.5. The S(0.5) and k(cat) were determined to be 3.4+/-0.3 M and 33+/-3 min(-1), and the Hill coefficient (h) 2.21+/-0.09, indicating positive cooperativity. Strikingly, the S(0.5) for ethanol was found to be 5.4 x 10(6)-fold higher than the K(m) for S-(hydroxymethyl)glutathione, a classic substrate for the enzyme, whereas the k(cat) for the former was 41% lower than that for the latter. Isotope effects on enzyme activity suggest that hydride transfer may be rate-limiting in the oxidation of ethanol. Kinetic simulations using the experimentally determined Hill constant suggest that gastric ADH3 may highly effectively contribute to the first-pass metabolism at 0.5-3 M ethanol, an attainable range in the gastric lumen during alcohol consumption. The positive cooperativity mainly accounts for this metabolic role of ADH3.
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- Shou-Lun Lee
- Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan.
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Sanghani PC, Robinson H, Bennett-Lovsey R, Hurley TD, Bosron WF. Structure-function relationships in human Class III alcohol dehydrogenase (formaldehyde dehydrogenase). Chem Biol Interact 2003; 143-144:195-200. [PMID: 12604204 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(02)00203-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Human Class III alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), also known as glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase plays an important role in the formaldehyde detoxification and reduction of the nitric oxide metabolite s-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO). It follows a random bi bi kinetic mechanism and prefers bulkier substrates like long chain primary alcohols and glutathione adducts like s-hydroxymethylglutathione and GSNO over smaller alcohols like ethanol. The structure of the FDH.NAD(H) binary complex reported here, in conjunction with the other complexes of FDH, provide the structural basis of the kinetic observations. These structures show that the apoenzyme has a semi-open domain conformation that permits random random addition of alcohol or NAD(H). Moreover, there is no significant domain movement upon binding of the coenzyme or the substrate, 12-hydroxydodecanoic acid. Interestingly, two active site zinc coordination environments are observed in FDH. In the apoenzyme, the active site zinc is coordinated to Cys44, His66, Cys173 and a water molecule. In the FDH.NAD(H) binary complex reported here, Glu67 is added to the coordination environment of the active site zinc and the distance between the water molecule and zinc is increased. This change in the zinc coordination, brought about by the displacement of zinc of about 2 A towards Glu67 could promote substrate exchange at the active site metal during catalysis.
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- Paresh C Sanghani
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, 635 Barnhill Drive Room 4023A, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5122, USA
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Mori O, Haseba T, Kameyama K, Shimizu H, Kudoh M, Ohaki O, Arai Y, Yamazaki M, Asano G. Histological distribution of class III alcohol dehydrogenase in human brain. Brain Res 2000; 852:186-90. [PMID: 10661511 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)02201-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The distributions of class III alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase, and class I ADH in the human brain were examined immunohistochemically. The most intense immunostaining of class III ADH was observed in the dendrites and cytoplasm of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Scattered cerebral cortical neurons in layers IV and V, and some hippocampal pyramidal neurons were also immunopositive. The neuronal distribution of class III ADH resembled that of the vulnerable neurons in patients with hypoxic encephalopathy, which in view of the intense staining in the Purkinje cells, raises the possibility that this enzyme contributes to the hypoxia and cerebellar degeneration suffered by chronic alcoholics. Perivascular and subependymal astrocytes, which contribute to the maintenance of the cerebral cellular milieu and isolate the brain from the systemic circulation and cerebrospinal fluid, were also class III ADH positive. As the substrates of this enzyme include intrinsic toxic formaldehyde, inflammatory intermediate of 20-hydroxy-leukoteiene B4, and possibly ethanol, the distribution of class III ADH immunostaining indicates this enzyme contributes to the defence of the brain against degenerative processes. The finding that, unlike ependymal cells, subependymal astrocytes were class III ADH positive, suggests this enzyme may be useful for differentiating astrocytes and ependymal cells.
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- O Mori
- Department of Pathology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
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Fernández MR, Biosca JA, Torres D, Crosas B, Parés X. A double residue substitution in the coenzyme-binding site accounts for the different kinetic properties between yeast and human formaldehyde dehydrogenases. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:37869-75. [PMID: 10608852 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.53.37869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (FALDH) is the main enzymatic system for formaldehyde detoxification in all eukaryotic and many prokaryotic organisms. The enzyme of yeasts and some bacteria exhibits about 10-fold higher k(cat) and K(m) values than those of the enzyme from animals and plants. Typically Thr-269 and Glu-267 are found in the coenzyme-binding site of yeast FALDH, but Ile-269 and Asp-267 are present in the FALDH of animals. By site-directed mutagenesis we have prepared the T269I and the D267E mutants and the D267E/T269I double mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae FALDH with the aim of investigating the role of these residues in the kinetics. The T269I and the D267E mutants have identical kinetic properties as compared with the wild-type enzyme, although T269I is highly unstable. In contrast, the D267E/T269I double mutant is stable and shows low K(m) (2.5 microM) and low k(cat) (285 min(-1)) values with S-hydroxymethylglutathione, similar to those of the human enzyme. Therefore, the simultaneous exchange at both residues is the structural basis of the two distinct FALDH kinetic types. The local structural perturbations imposed by the substitutions are suggested by molecular modeling studies. Finally, we have studied the effect of FALDH deletion and overexpression on the growth of S. cerevisiae. It is concluded that the FALDH gene is not essential but enhances the resistance against formaldehyde (0.3-1 mM). Moreover, the wild-type enzyme (with high k(cat) and K(m)) provides more resistance than the double mutant (with low k(cat) and K(m)).
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- M R Fernández
- Department of Biochemistry, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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Hedberg JJ, Strömberg P, Höög JO. An attempt to transform class characteristics within the alcohol dehydrogenase family. FEBS Lett 1998; 436:67-70. [PMID: 9771895 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01100-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Human class I alcohol dehydrogenase was mutated at positions 57 and 115, exchanging for Asp and Arg respectively, in an attempt to introduce glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase characteristics. In addition, class III alcohol dehydrogenase, identical to glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase, was mutated at position 115, introducing Ser or Lys. The attempted class transformation was partly successful considering a higher affinity for 12-hydroxydodecanoate and a lower affinity for ethanol that was monitored for the class I mutant. However, the class I mutant displayed neither glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity nor fatty acid activation of alcohol oxidation. Interestingly, both class III mutants showed reduced activities for S-hydroxymethylglutathione and 12-hydroxydodecanoate through increased Km, values. Overall results show that it is not possible, by single point mutations, to completely transform enzyme characteristics between these two classes of alcohol dehydrogenase.
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- J J Hedberg
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Jensen DE, Belka GK, Du Bois GC. S-Nitrosoglutathione is a substrate for rat alcohol dehydrogenase class III isoenzyme. Biochem J 1998; 331 ( Pt 2):659-68. [PMID: 9531510 PMCID: PMC1219401 DOI: 10.1042/bj3310659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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An enzyme isolated from rat liver cytosol (native molecular mass 78. 3 kDa; polypeptide molecular mass 42.5 kDa) is capable of catalysing the NADH/NADPH-dependent degradation of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO). The activity utilizes 1 mol of coenzyme per mol of GSNO processed. The isolated enzyme has, as well, several characteristics that are unique to alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) class III isoenzyme: it is capable of catalysing the NAD+-dependent oxidations of octanol (insensitive to inhibition by 4-methylpyrazole), methylcrotyl alcohol (stimulated by added pentanoate) and 12-hydroxydodecanoic acid, and also the NADH/NADPH-dependent reduction of octanal. Methanol and ethanol oxidation activity is minimal. The enzyme has formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity in that it is capable of catalysing the NAD+/NADP+-dependent oxidation of S-hydroxymethylglutathione. Treatment with the arginine-specific reagent phenylglyoxal prevents the pentanoate stimulation of methylcrotyl alcohol oxidation and markedly diminishes the enzymic activity towards octanol, 12-hydroxydodecanoic acid and S-hydroxymethylglutathione; the capacity to catalyse GSNO degradation is also checked. Additionally, limited peptide sequencing indicates 100% correspondence with known ADH class III isoenzyme sequences. Kinetic studies demonstrate that GSNO is an exceptionally active substrate for this enzyme. S-Nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine and S-nitrosated human serum albumin are not substrates; the activity towards S-nitrosated glutathione mono- and di-ethyl esters is minimal. Product analysis suggests that glutathione sulphinamide is the major stable product of enzymic GSNO processing, with minor yields of GSSG and NH3; GSH, hydroxylamine, nitrite, nitrate and nitric oxide accumulations are minimal. Inclusion of GSH in the reaction mix decreases the yield of the supposed glutathione sulphinamide in favor of GSSG and hydroxylamine.
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- D E Jensen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
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The level of blood or brain alcohol is considered to influence alcohol ingestion by causing subjective perceptions or neural activations that are reinforcing or rewarding. Alcohol-dependent people may try to maintain some desired tissue level, drinking to replace the millimolar levels that were cleared from the blood by metabolism. The biomedical literature describes many approaches to understanding the role of blood alcohol levels in human physiology and behavior, and this review examines some of the published results. They include the general kinetics of intake and removal of beverage alcohol as well as the characteristics of many different catalysts that can interact with alcohol. Because ingested alcohol creates blood levels that are a 1000-fold greater than those normally experienced during abstinence, ethanol may impose itself as an alternate substrate for the many oxidoreductases that act physiologically on other endogenous alcohols. Many enzymes that can act on millimolar ethanol have been isolated, and their structural genes are sequenced. Unfortunately, the genetic sequence does not indicate the physiological material upon which the translated gene product may act. In a sense, the set of enzymes with catalytic sites occupied by millimolar ethanol during alcohol drinking might constructively be regarded as "orphan gene products" whose physiological role remains to be clarified. This review is designed to indicate some of what is known, what is not known, and what needs to be known to improve the interpretations regarding adaptations to beverage alcohol and the ability of millimolar levels of alcohol to diminish dysphoria. The dysphoria may be influenced by ethanol, by ethanol metabolites, or by altered metabolism of currently unspecified endogenous substrates. A major challenge is to evaluate the multiple alternative variables within a context that stimulates curiosity and encourages quantitative tests of the relative contribution of each variable to the overall physiology of an individual.
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- W E Lands
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-7003, USA.
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Martínez MC, Achkor H, Persson B, Fernández MR, Shafqat J, Farrés J, Jörnvall H, Parés X. Arabidopsis formaldehyde dehydrogenase. Molecular properties of plant class III alcohol dehydrogenase provide further insights into the origins, structure and function of plant class p and liver class I alcohol dehydrogenases. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 241:849-57. [PMID: 8944774 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00849.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (class III alcohol dehydrogenase) has been characterized from Arabidopsis thaliana. This plant enzyme exhibits kinetic and molecular properties in common with the class III forms from mammals, with a K(m) for S-hydroxymethylglutathione of 1.4 microM, an anodic electrophoretic mobility (pI: 5.3-5.6) and a cross-reaction with anti-(rat class III alcohol dehydrogenase) antibodies. The enzyme structure, deduced from the cDNA sequence, fits into the complex system of alcohol dehydrogenases and shows that all life forms share the class III protein type. The corresponding mRNA is 1.4 kb and present in all plant organs; a single copy of the gene is found in the genome. The class III structural variability is different from that of the ethanol-active enzyme types in both vertebrates (class I) and plants (class P), although class P conserves more of the class III properties than class I does. Also the enzymatic properties differ between the two ethanol-active classes. Active-site variability and exchanges at essential residues (Leu/Gly57, Asp/Arg115) may explain the distinct kinetics. These patterns are consistent with two different metabolic roles for the ethanol-active enzymes, a more constant function, reduction of acetaldehyde during hypoxia, for class P, and a more variable function, the detoxication of alcohols and participation in metabolic conversions, for class I. A sequence motif, Pro-Xaa-Ile/Val-Xaa-Gly-His-Glu-Xaa-Xaa-Gly, common to all medium-chain alcohol dehydrogenases is defined.
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- M C Martínez
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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Shafqat J, El-Ahmad M, Danielsson O, Martínez MC, Persson B, Parés X, Jornvall H. Pea formaldehyde-active class III alcohol dehydrogenase: common derivation of the plant and animal forms but not of the corresponding ethanol-active forms (classes I and P). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:5595-9. [PMID: 8643621 PMCID: PMC39292 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.11.5595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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A plant class III alcohol dehydrogenase (or glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase) has been characterized. The enzyme is a typical class III member with enzymatic parameters and substrate specificity closely related to those of already established animal forms. Km values with the pea enzyme are 6.5 microM for NAD+, 2 microM for S-hydroxymethylglutathione, and 840 microM for octanol versus 9, 4, and 1200 microM, respectively, with the human enzyme. Structurally, the pea/human class III enzymes are closely related, exhibiting a residue identity of 69% and with only 3 of 23 residues differing among those often considered in substrate and coenzyme binding. In contrast, the corresponding ethanol-active enzymes, the long-known human liver and pea alcohol dehydrogenases, differ more (47% residue identities) and are also in functionally important active site segments, with 12 of the 23 positions exchanged, including no less than 7 at the usually much conserved coenzyme-binding segment. These differences affect functionally important residues that are often class-distinguishing, such as those at positions 48, 51, and 115, where the plant ethanol-active forms resemble class III (Thr, Tyr, and Arg, respectively) rather than the animal ethanol-active class I forms (typically Ser, His, and Asp, respectively). Calculations of phylogenetic trees support the conclusions from functional residues in subgrouping plant ethanol-active dehydrogenases and the animal ethanol-active enzymes (class I) as separate descendants from the class III line. It appears that the classical plant alcohol dehydrogenases (now called class P) have a duplicatory origin separate from that of the animal class I enzymes and therefore a paralogous relationship with functional convergence of their alcohol substrate specificity. Combined, the results establish the conserved nature of class III also in plants, and contribute to the molecular and functional understanding of alcohol dehydrogenases by defining two branches of plant enzymes into the system.
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- J Shafqat
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Bonete MJ, Perez-Pomares F, Ferrer J, Camacho ML. NAD-glutamate dehydrogenase from Halobacterium halobium: inhibition and activation by TCA intermediates and amino acids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1289:14-24. [PMID: 8605224 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(95)00134-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A variety of metabolites have been found to elicit a form of inhibition or activation on an NAD-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (NAD-GDH, EC 1.4.1.2) from Halobacterium halobium. The purified halophilic enzyme was tested with several compounds known to be allosteric modifiers of mammalian glutamate dehydrogenases to determine their effects on enzyme activity. GTP, ATP, ADP and AMP did not affect the enzyme, so these effectors of bovine glutamate dehydrogenase do not play a role in the regulation of the halophilic enzyme. However, the halophilic enzyme was subject to strong inhibition by TCA intermediates. When measuring the initial rate of the reaction, the oxidative deamination of L-glutamate was inhibited by TCA metabolites such as: fumarate, oxalacetate, succinate and malate; by substrate analogues such as: NADP+, D-glutamate and glutarate; and by dicarboxylic compounds such as adipate. On the other hand, all the amino acids tested were activators of this enzyme, except the D-isomer of the substrate L-glutamate that acted as an inhibitor. The relative effectiveness of each inhibitor or activator (Ki or Ka values) was correlated with the dipole moment (mu), HOMO and LUMO molecular orbital energies, optimal distance between two carboxyl groups, and hydrophobicity. Compounds with high dipole moment acted as good activators while compounds with low dipole moment were inhibitors. We have also found that the best activators were amino acids with no polar lateral chain.
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- M J Bonete
- Departamento de Agroquímica-Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
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Keung WM, Kunze L, Holmquist B. Rabbit liver class III alcohol dehydrogenase: a cathodic isoform with formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1995; 19:860-6. [PMID: 7485831 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1995.tb00959.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Electrophoresis of rabbit liver homogenate on starch gel followed by activity staining revealed multiple forms of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) which, based on their electrophoretic mobilities, had been tentatively labeled as class "I," class "II," and class "III" ADHs. The class II enzyme has now been purified to homogeneity by ion exchange and affinity chromatography and, except for an isoelectric point of 7.7, closely resembles human class III ADH. It is a homodimer of molecular weight near 80,000 with a similar amino acid composition and comparable kinetic parameters for the oxidation of primary alcohols. Like the rat, human, and Escherichia coli class III ADHs, the rabbit enzyme is a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase, and catalyzes the oxidation of S-hydroxymethylglutathione and the hemithiolacetal of 8-thiooctanoic acid. Ethanol up to 3 M does not saturate the enzyme, whereas longer chain primary alcohols exhibit Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
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- W M Keung
- Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Estonius M, Höög JO, Danielsson O, Jörnvall H. Mutations of human class III alcohol dehydrogenase. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1995; 372:327-30. [PMID: 7484394 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1965-2_39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- M Estonius
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Estonius M, Höög JO, Danielsson O, Jörnvall H. Residues specific for class III alcohol dehydrogenase. Site-directed mutagenesis of the human enzyme. Biochemistry 1994; 33:15080-5. [PMID: 7999766 DOI: 10.1021/bi00254a017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Human class III alcohol dehydrogenase (with both glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase activities) was expressed, and studied by site-directed mutagenesis corresponding to three amino acid residues that are affecting the substrate-binding pocket of class I (with alcohol dehydrogenase activity only). A Thr48Ala exchange results in an enzyme essentially without alcohol dehydrogenase activity but with some glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity retained. This indicates that coordination to the enzyme of S-hydroxymethylglutathione is mediated by interactions additional to, or different from, those utilized for primary and secondary alcohols. An Asp57Leu mutation causes considerable loss of the formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity, showing that a negative charge at position 57 is a prerequisite for this class III-type of activity, in the same manner as a positive charge at position 115 has been previously demonstrated to be crucial. Therefore, Asp57 and Arg115 appear to contribute equally to the interactions with S-hydroxymethylglutathione, compatible with defining the class III-type of specificity and possibly explaining the dependence on glutathione. A Tyr93Phe mutant exhibits decreased kcat values for substrates in general and correlates with inhibition of alcohol dehydrogenase activity by 4-methylpyrazole, a potent inhibitor of the class I enzymes. In a double mutant, Asp57Leu/Tyr93Phe, the effects of the two mutations are potentiating one another, yielding a fall in kcat/Km for hydroxymethylglutathione by a factor of 1250, i.e., a still further loss of class III-type activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M Estonius
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Danielsson O, Atrian S, Luque T, Hjelmqvist L, Gonzàlez-Duarte R, Jörnvall H. Fundamental molecular differences between alcohol dehydrogenase classes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:4980-4. [PMID: 8197167 PMCID: PMC43913 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.11.4980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Two types of alcohol dehydrogenase in separate protein families are the "medium-chain" zinc enzymes (including the classical liver and yeast forms) and the "short-chain" enzymes (including the insect form). Although the medium-chain family has been characterized in prokaryotes and many eukaryotes (fungi, plants, cephalopods, and vertebrates), insects have seemed to possess only the short-chain enzyme. We have now also characterized a medium-chain alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila. The enzyme is identical to insect octanol dehydrogenase. It is a typical class III alcohol dehydrogenase, similar to the corresponding human form (70% residue identity), with mostly the same residues involved in substrate and coenzyme interactions. Changes that do occur are conservative, but Phe-51 is of functional interest in relation to decreased coenzyme binding and increased overall activity. Extra residues versus the human enzyme near position 250 affect the coenzyme-binding domain. Enzymatic properties are similar--i.e., very low activity toward ethanol (Km beyond measurement) and high selectivity for formaldehyde/glutathione (S-hydroxymethylglutathione; kcat/Km = 160,000 min-1.mM-1). Between the present class III and the ethanol-active class I enzymes, however, patterns of variability differ greatly, highlighting fundamentally separate molecular properties of these two alcohol dehydrogenases, with class III resembling enzymes in general and class I showing high variation. The gene coding for the Drosophila class III enzyme produces an mRNA of about 1.36 kb that is present at all developmental stages of the fly, compatible with the constitutive nature of the vertebrate enzyme. Taken together, the results bridge a previously apparent gap in the distribution of medium-chain alcohol dehydrogenases and establish a strictly conserved class III enzyme, consistent with an important role for this enzyme in cellular metabolism.
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- O Danielsson
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Höög JO, Estonius M, Danielsson O. Site-directed mutagenesis and enzyme properties of mammalian alcohol dehydrogenases correlated with their tissue distribution. EXS 1994; 71:301-9. [PMID: 8032161 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-7330-7_30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Site-directed mutagenesis of mammalian alcohol dehydrogenases has helped to explain functional differences between enzymes within the protein family and traced these characteristics to specific amino acid residues. A threonine/serine exchange at position 48 in the human beta/gamma subunits can explain sensitivity to testosterone inhibition, as well as steroid dehydrogenase activity. It is possible to correlate the glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity of class III alcohol dehydrogenase with an arginine at position 115. Tissue distribution analysis of the three initially established classes of mammalian alcohol dehydrogenase show pronouncedly different patterns. Class I alcohol dehydrogenase is widespread but varies between the tissues, and exists in small amounts in the brain. The occurrence of class II is limited in contrast to the class III enzyme which is abundant in all tissues examined. The latter probably reflects the need for scavenging of formaldehyde in cytoprotection. Additional enzyme forms of mammalian alcohol dehydrogenase have been detected and have to be investigated further, together with the enzymes characterized earlier, regarding their physiological role in alcohol metabolism.
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- J O Höög
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kaiser R, Fernández MR, Parés X, Jörnvall H. Origin of the human alcohol dehydrogenase system: implications from the structure and properties of the octopus protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:11222-6. [PMID: 8248232 PMCID: PMC47954 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.23.11222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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In contrast to the multiplicity of alcohol dehydrogenase in vertebrates, a class III type of the enzyme [i.e., a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase; formaldehyde; NAD+ oxidoreductase (glutathione-formylating), EC 1.2.1.1.] is the only form detectable in appreciable yield in octopus. It is enzymatically and structurally highly similar to the human class III enzyme, with limited overall residue differences (26%) and only a few conservative residue exchanges at the substrate and coenzyme pockets, reflecting "constant" characteristics of this class over wide time periods. It is distinct from the ethanol-active "variable" class I type of the enzyme (i.e., classical liver alcohol dehydrogenase; alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.1). The residue conservation of class III is also spaced differently from that of class I but is typical of that of proteins in general, emphasizing that class I, with divergence at three functional segments, is the form with deviating properties. In spite of the conservation in class III, surface charges differ considerably. The apparent absence of a class I enzyme in octopus and the constant nature of the class III enzyme support the concept of a duplicative origin of the class I line from the ancient class III form. Still more distant relationships define further enzyme lines that have subunits with other properties.
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- R Kaiser
- Department of Chemistry I, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Keung WM. Biochemical studies of a new class of alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitors from Radix puerariae. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1993; 17:1254-60. [PMID: 8116840 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1993.tb05238.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Two potent, reversible inhibitors of human alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) isozymes were isolated from Radix puerariae (RP, commonly known as kudzu root) and identified as the isoflavones diadzein and genistein. The 4'-methoxy derivatives of daidzein (trivial name, formononetin) and genistein (biochanin A), minor constituents of RP, were also shown to be ADH inhibitors. All of these isoflavones inhibit the human gamma 2 gamma 2-ADH isozyme competitively with respect to ethanol and uncompetitively with respect to NAD+. A survey of more than 40 structurally related compounds revealed one more isoflavone (prunetin) and four flavones (7-hydroxyflavone, apigenin, galangin, and kaempferol) that inhibit ADH. The isoflavone inhibitors, however, are far more potent than the flavone inhibitors. Among the isoflavones studied, genistein is the most potent with Ki = 0.1 microM toward gamma 2 gamma 2-ADH. Human ADH isozymes differ in their sensitivity to these inhibitors in the order gamma 2 gamma 2-, gamma 1 gamma 1- > alpha alpha-, pi pi- > chi chi-ADH. These inhibitors do not affect the beta 1 beta 1- and beta 2 beta 2-ADH isozymes at concentrations as high as 20 microM. Rat and rabbit class I ADHs are also inhibited by these isoflavone inhibitors. The 7-O-glucosyl derivatives of daidzein, genistein, formononetin, and biochanin A do not inhibit ADH, but are potent aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors.
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- W M Keung
- Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Rosario Fernández M, Jörnvall H, Moreno A, Kaiser R, Parés X. Cephalopod alcohol dehydrogenase: purification and enzymatic characterization. FEBS Lett 1993; 328:235-8. [PMID: 8348970 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80934-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Octopus, squid and cuttle-fish organs were examined for alcohol dehydrogenase activity. Only one form was detectable, with properties typical of mammalian class III alcohol dehydrogenase. The corresponding protein was purified from octopus and enzymatically characterized. Ion-exchange and affinity chromatography produced a pure protein in excellent yield (73%) after 1600-fold purification. Enzymatic parameters with several substrates were similar to those for the human class III alcohol dehydrogenase, demonstrating a largely conserved function of the enzyme through wide lines of divergence covering vertebrates, cephalopods and bacteria. The results establish the universal occurrence of class III alcohol dehydrogenase and its strictly conserved functional properties in separate living forms. The absence of other alcohol dehydrogenases in cephalopods is compatible with the emergence of the ethanol-active class I type at a later stage, in lineages leading to vertebrates.
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- M Rosario Fernández
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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Persson B, Bergman T, Keung WM, Waldenström U, Holmquist B, Vallee BL, Jörnvall H. Basic features of class-I alcohol dehydrogenase: variable and constant segments coordinated by inter-class and intra-class variability. Conclusions from characterization of the alligator enzyme. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 216:49-56. [PMID: 8365416 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb18115.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The enzymatic and structural properties of alligator liver alcohol dehydrogenase have been determined. Aliphatic and alicyclic alcohols serve as substrates for this first reptilian form of the enzyme characterized, with Km values decreasing rapidly from methanol to hexanol, as for the human class I enzymes, and a Km of 1.2 mM for ethanol at pH 9.9. The N-terminus of the 374-residue protein chain is acetyl-blocked. The enzyme is related in descending order to class I > III > V > II of the structurally characterized mammalian alcohol dehydrogenases. This observation is compatible with the presence of a I/III ancestral line. Differences of the enzyme classes exceed those of the species, suggesting an early origin of the classes. Within its enzyme class, the reptilian protein is most closely related to the avian form (82% residue identities), and is closer to the human than to the amphibian form (76%, versus 69%, respectively). This establishes class I alcohol dehydrogenase as an enzyme having fairly constant rate of change during much of vertebrate evolution, approximately 10% residue differences/100 million years of separation between pairs compared. Residues interacting with the substrate and coenzyme are largely conserved. In the alligator enzyme, there are only four replacements in the substrate pocket compared with the human class I gamma subunit, and those are not known to have functional roles. These properties account for the kinetic parameters, and suggest distinct metabolic functions for the class I enzyme in vertebrates. Comparisons of the enzymes of the different vertebrate lines reveal that segment patterns are characteristic features of the class I enzymes. Three segments are 'variable', while two are 'constant', and both these types of segment are identical with those of the classes. There is extensive variability in close proximity to the active site of the enzyme and this appears to constitute a fundamental property of class I liver alcohol dehydrogenases in general.
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- B Persson
- Department of Chemistry I, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Holmquist B, Moulis JM, Engeland K, Vallee BL. Role of arginine 115 in fatty acid activation and formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity of human class III alcohol dehydrogenase. Biochemistry 1993; 32:5139-44. [PMID: 8494891 DOI: 10.1021/bi00070a024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Modification of class III alcohol dehydrogenase (chi chi-ADH) with phenylglyoxal eliminates fatty acid activation by pentanoate and octanoate and concomitantly increases specific activity toward ethanol and 3-methylcrotyl alcohol 2-3-fold. In contrast, chemical modification decreases activity toward S-(hydroxymethyl)glutathione (FDH activity) and 12-hydroxydodecanoic acid by increasing Km, pointing to a role for arginine in binding anionic substrates. Modification with [7-14C]phenylglyoxal indicates that only one arginine residue per subunit is modified. Sequence analysis of tryptic peptides indicates that Arg-115 is modified. Site-directed mutation of this residue to alanine eliminates both fatty acid activation and FDH activity, thus confirming the identity of the modified residue and its function. These results account in part for the unique specificity of chi chi-ADH relative to other human ADH isozymes.
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- B Holmquist
- Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Engeland K, Höög JO, Holmquist B, Estonius M, Jörnvall H, Vallee BL. Mutation of Arg-115 of human class III alcohol dehydrogenase: a binding site required for formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity and fatty acid activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:2491-4. [PMID: 8460164 PMCID: PMC46113 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.6.2491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The origin of the fatty acid activation and formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity that distinguishes human class III alcohol dehydrogenase (alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.1) from all other alcohol dehydrogenases has been examined by site-directed mutagenesis of its Arg-115 residue. The Ala- and Asp-115 mutant proteins were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified by affinity chromatography and ion-exchange HPLC. The activities of the recombinant native and mutant enzymes toward ethanol are essentially identical, but mutagenesis greatly decreases the kcat/Km values for glutathione-dependent formaldehyde oxidation. The catalytic efficiency for the Asp variant is < 0.1% that of the unmutated enzyme, due to both a higher Km and a lower kcat value. As with the native enzyme, neither mutant can oxidize methanol, be saturated by ethanol, or be inhibited by 4-methylpyrazole; i.e., they retain these class III characteristics. In contrast, however, their activation by fatty acids, another characteristic unique to class III alcohol dehydrogenase, is markedly attenuated. The Ala mutant is activated only slightly, but the Asp mutant is not activated at all. The results strongly indicate that Arg-115 in class III alcohol dehydrogenase is a component of the binding site for activating fatty acids and is critical for the binding of S-hydroxymethylglutathione in glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity.
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- K Engeland
- Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Koivusalo M, Uotila L. Glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase/class III alcohol dehydrogenase: further characterization of the rat liver enzyme. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1993; 328:465-74. [PMID: 8493925 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2904-0_49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- M Koivusalo
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Holmquist B, Vallee BL. Human liver class III alcohol and glutathione dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase are the same enzyme. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991; 178:1371-7. [PMID: 1872853 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)91045-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Human liver class III alcohol dehydrogenase (chi chi-ADH) and glutathione dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase are the same enzyme. The enzyme, chi chi-ADH, exhibits a kcat of 200 min-1 and a km of 4 microM for the oxidation of formaldehyde, but only in the presence of GSH. In the absence of GSH the enzyme is essentially inactive toward formaldehyde but very active toward long chain alcohols. Thus, as in the rat (Koivusalo, M., Baumann, M., and Uotila, L. (1989) FEBS Letters 257, 105-109), the class III alcohol dehydrogenase and the GSH dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase are identical enzymes. S-Hydroxymethyl derivatives of 8-thiooctanoate and lipoate are also very active substrates. The activity is specific for class III alcohol dehydrogenase; neither the class I and II nor the horse EE, ES, and SS isozymes oxidize hemithiolacetals. o-Phenanthroline competitively inhibits both activities and the two substrate types compete with each other.
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- B Holmquist
- Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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