STUDIES ON PROPERTIES OF HUMAN ALCOHOL-DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYMES DETERMINED BY DIFFERENT LOCI ADH1, ADH2, ADH3
STUDIES ON PROPERTIES OF HUMAN ALCOHOL-DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYMES DETERMINED BY DIFFERENT LOCI ADH1, ADH2, ADH3
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-1809.1973.tb01814.x
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
HOPKINSON, DA
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作者:
SMITH, M;HOPKINSON, DA
Previous studies indicate that human alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) is determined by three separate structural gene loci (ADH,, ADH, and ADH,) and there is evidence for genetic polymoqhism at the ADH, and ADH, loci (Smith, Hopkinson & Harris, 1971, 1972). Convincing evidence has been obtained from in witro ‘hybridization’experiments to supportthe hypothesis that the human ADH isozymes are dimers and that any one particular isozyme may be a homodimer consisting of two identical polypeptide subunits or a heterodimer consisting of two nonidentical subunits coded by different gene loci or different alleles at the same locus (Schenker, Teeple & von Wartburg, 1971; Jornvall & Pietruszko, 1972; Smith, Hopkinson & Harris, 1973). It has also been found tha. t the isozymes are of similar molecular weight but differ according to their subunit composition in their relative electrophoretic mobilities on starch gels and in their relative activities with ethanol, wamyl alcohol and butanol as substrates (Smith et ul. 1972). The present paper describes further investigations of the substrate specificities of the human ADH isozymes determined by the three different gene loci and also the results of studies on the inhibition characteristics, pH activity profiles and in vitro stabilities of the various isozymes. Previous work using crude tissue homogenates and also purified preparations indicated that human liver ADH has a broad substrate specificity and is capable of catalysing the oxidation of a wide range of alcohols in the presence of NAD and the reduction of many corresponding aldehydes in the presence of NADH (von Wartburg, Bethune & Vallee, 1964; von Wartburg, Papenberg & Aebi, 1965; von Wartburg & Papenberg, 1966; von Wartburg, 1971). Several pharmacologically actiTe alcohols such as Ronicol (P-pyridyl carbinol) and Myanesin (toloxy-1, 2-propanediol) and aldehydes such as chloral hydrate and Acetaldol (P-hydroxybutyraldehyde) have also been shown to act as substrates for human liver ADH (von Wartburg & Schurch, 1968). The effects of inhibitors such as thiourea, pyrazole, several halogen derivatives of acetaldehyde and ethanol and various metal binding agents have also been described in the previous literature, particularly in connexion with comparisons of the ‘usual’and ‘atypical’forms of the enzyme (Ton Wartburg et ul. 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968; Blair & Vallee, 1966). The present work was planned as an extension of these earlier studies, to take into account the recently defined electrophoretic heterogeneity and genetic polymorphism of the human ADH isozymes and also to test further the validity of the genetic hypothesis outlined above that human ADH is determined by three separate structural gene loci, ADH,, ADH, and