PUBLICATION
Two zebrafish alcohol dehydrogenases share common ancestry with mammalian class I, II, IV, and V ADH genes but have distinct functional characteristics
- Authors
- Reimers, M.J., Hahn, M.E., and Tanguay, R.L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-040706-8
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- The Journal of biological chemistry 279(37): 38303-38312 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Hahn, Mark E., Reimers, Mark, Tanguay, Robyn L.
- Keywords
- alcohol, alcohol dehydrogenase, ADH, class I ADH, class III ADH, developmental expression, enzyme kinetics, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Alcohol Dehydrogenase/chemistry*
- Alcohol Dehydrogenase/genetics*
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Binding, Competitive
- Cell Line
- Chromosome Mapping
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Ethanol/pharmacology
- Glutathione/analogs & derivatives*
- Glutathione/chemistry
- Humans
- Insecta
- Kinetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Open Reading Frames
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Rats
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Species Specificity
- Time Factors
- Tissue Distribution
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 15231826 Full text @ J. Biol. Chem.
Citation
Reimers, M.J., Hahn, M.E., and Tanguay, R.L. (2004) Two zebrafish alcohol dehydrogenases share common ancestry with mammalian class I, II, IV, and V ADH genes but have distinct functional characteristics. The Journal of biological chemistry. 279(37):38303-38312.
Abstract
Ethanol is teratogenic to many vertebrates. We are utilizing zebrafish as a model system to determine if there is an association between ethanol metabolism and ethanol-mediated developmental toxicity. Here we report the isolation and characterization of two cDNAs encoding zebrafish alcohol dehydrogenases (ADH). Phylogenetic analysis of these zebrafish ADHs indicates that they share a common ancestor with mammalian class I, II, IV, and V ADHs. The genes encoding these zebrafish ADHs have been named Adh8a and Adh8b by the nomenclature committee. Both genes were genetically mapped to chromosome 13. The 1450 bp Adh8a is 82%, 73%, 72%, and 72% similar at the amino acid level to the Baltic cod ADH8 (previously named ADH1), the human ADH1B2, the mouse ADH1 and the rat ADH1, respectively. Also, the 1484 bp Adh8b is 77%, 68%, 67%, and 66% similar at the amino acid level to the Baltic cod ADH8, the human ADH1B2, the mouse ADH1 and the rat ADH1, respectively. ADH8A and ADH8B share 86% amino acid similarity. To characterize the functional properties of ADH8A and ADH8B, recombinant proteins were purified from SF-9 insect cells. Kinetic studies demonstrate that ADH8A metabolizes ethanol, with a Vmax of 13.4 nmol/min/mg protein, while ADH8B does not metabolize ethanol. The ADH8A Km for ethanol as a substrate is 0.7 mM. 4-Methyl pyrazole (100 M), a classical competitive inhibitor of class I ADH, failed to inhibit ADH8A. ADH8B has the capacity to efficiently biotransform longer chain primary alcohols (> 5 carbons) and S-hydroxymethlyglutathione (HMGSH), whereas ADH8A does not efficiently metabolize these substrates. Finally, mRNA expression studies indicate that both ADH8A and ADH8B mRNA are expressed during early development and in the adult brain, fin, gill, heart, kidney, muscle, and liver. Together these results indicate that class I-like ADH is conserved in zebrafish, albeit with mixed functional properties.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping