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Expression systems for the heterologous expression of Drosophila melanogaster alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been designed, analyzed and compared. Four different yeast/Escherichia coli shuttle vectors were constructed and used to transform four different yeast strains. Expression was detectable in ADH- yeast strains, from either a constitutive promoter, yeast ADH1 promoter (ADCp), or a regulated promoter, yeast GALp. The highest amount of D. melanogaster ADH was obtained from a multicopy plasmid with the D. melanogaster Adh gene expressed constitutively under the control of yeast ADCp promoter. The D. melanogaster enzyme was produced in cell extracts, as assessed by Coomassie blue staining and Western blotting after polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and it was fully active and able to complement the yeast ADH deficiency. Results show that D. melanogaster ADH subunits synthesized in yeast are able to assemble into functional dimeric forms. The synthesized D. melanogaster ADH represents up to 3.5% of the total extracted yeast protein. 相似文献
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Reported kinetic pH dependence data for alcohol dehydrogenase from Drosophila melanogaster are analyzed with regard to differences in rate behaviour between this non-metallo enzyme and the zinc-containing liver alcohol dehydrogenase present in vertebrates. For the Drosophila enzyme a mechanism of action is proposed according to which catalytic proton release to solution during alcohol oxidation occurs at the binary-complex level as an obligatory step preceding substrate binding. Such proton release involves an ionizing group with a pKa of about 7.6 in the enzyme.NAD+ complex, tentatively identified as a tyrosyl residue. The ionized form of this group is proposed to participate in the binding of alcohol substrates and to act as a nucleophilic catalyst of the subsequent step of hydride ion transfer from the bound alcohol to NAD+. Herein lie fundamental mechanistic differences between the metallo and non-metallo short chain alcohol dehydrogenases. 相似文献
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In this study we have examined the roles of alcohol dehydrogenase, aldehyde oxidase, and aldehyde dehydrogenase in the adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster to alcohol environments. Fifteen strains were characterized for genetic variation at the above loci by protein electrophoresis. Levels of in vitro enzyme activity were also determined. The strains examined showed considerable variation in enzyme activity for all three gene-enzyme systems. Each enzyme was also characterized for coenzyme requirements, effect of inhibitors, subcellular location, and tissue specific expression. A subset of the strains was chosen to assess the physiological role of each gene-enzyme system in alcohol and aldehyde metabolism. These strains were characterized for both the ability to utilize alcohols and aldehydes as carbon sources as well as the capacity to detoxify such substrates. The results of the above analyses demonstrate the importance of both alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase in the in vivo metabolism of alcohols and aldehydes. 相似文献
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Cloning exons of mapping of transcription: characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster alcohol dehydrogenase gene 总被引:10,自引:2,他引:8
S Henikoff 《Nucleic acids research》1983,11(14):4735-4752
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Analysis of the gene encoding the multifunctional alcohol dehydrogenase allozyme ADH-71k of Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
K T Eisses A J Andriesse A Douwe de Boer G E Th?rig P J Weisbeek 《Molecular biology and evolution》1990,7(5):459-469
The nucleotide sequence of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene Adh71k has been determined. The Adh71k allele encodes the thermostable and multifunctional ADH-71k allozyme of Drosophila melanogaster. Comparison with the sequences of AdhS, AdhF, and AdhFChD reveals differences in the coding and noncoding regions of the gene. Conceptual translation of the Adh71k sequence indicates that ADH-71k shares with ADH-F and ADH-FCHD an amino acid replacement at residue 192 and with ADH-FCHD an additional replacement of serine for proline at residue 214. Three unique differences were found in the nontranslated regions. It is proposed that a nucleotide deletion in the adult intron is related to the difference in expression level of the Adh71k allele, relative to the other alleles. An insertion of five nucleotides, additional to a single base deletion at that site, was detected in one of the larval enhancer regions in the 5' flanking region of the Adh71k allele, creating a palindromic structure in that area. 相似文献
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Variation in activity and thermostability of alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
J McKay 《Genetical research》1981,37(3):227-237
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Properties of genetically polymorphic isozymes of alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:17,自引:0,他引:17
Studies of the isozymes produced by alternative alleles at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster indicate that the ADH F enzyme is more active but less stable than the ADHS enzyme. The difference in stability is manifested in the responses to various conditions of temperature, pH, and protein concentration. The two enzymes also appear to differ in their substrate specificities. It is clear that the differences of primary structure involved in the ADH polymorphism can have profound effects on the biological activity of the molecule. 相似文献
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The three forms of alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1) within a given strain of Drosophila melanogaster are composed of similar, if not identical, peptide chains as shown by amino acid analysis and peptide fingerprinting. After feeding [carbonyl-14C]nicotinamide to flies, label is associated with only two of the three forms in the ratio 1:2. Similarly, a fluorescent compound is associated with the same two forms. After purification of this compound and characterization of it by thin layer chromatography and mass spectroscopy, we conclude that the multiple forms of Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase appear to be caused by the noncovalent binding of 1 and 2 mol of an NAD-carbonyl compound addition complex to the enzyme. 相似文献
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Comparison of alcohol dehydrogenase expression in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) gene expression was analyzed in Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species D. simulans. The levels of ADH activity, ADH-cross-reacting material (CRM), and ADH-mRNA were analyzed for several strains of each species, which derive from diverse geographic locations around the world. There is considerable quantitative variation in ADH activity, CRM level, and RNA level among strains within species at all developmental stages. However, the only consistent differences between the two species are in pupal RNA level and in late-adult activity and CRM level. Late-adult melanogaster flies that are homozygous for the Slow allozyme have approximately twice the level of ADH activity and CRM as do simulans flies. The regression of activity on CRM over strains is highly significant and essentially the same for each species, which means that most, if not all, of the activity difference between the species is due to a difference in concentration of the ADH protein. In contrast, there is no significant regression of CRM level on mRNA level in adults of either species; nor is there a significant difference in RNA level between species. Therefore, the difference in ADH protein concentration is not due to RNA template availability. Thus, the interspecific difference in ADH level in adults must be due either to a difference in the rate of translation of the two RNAs or to a difference in protein stability. 相似文献
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The alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) gene was isolated from Drosophila simulans
and D. mauritiana, and the DNA sequence of a 4.6-kb region, containing the
structural gene and flanking sequence, was determined for each. These
sequences were compared with the Adh region of D. melanogaster to
characterize changes that occur in the Drosophila genome during evolution
and to identify conserved sequences of functional importance. Drosophila
simulans and D. mauritiana Adh are organized in a manner similar to that of
D. melanogaster Adh, including the presence of two promoters for the single
Adh gene. This study identified conserved flanking elements that, in
conjunction with other studies, suggest regions that may be involved in the
control of Adh expression. Inter- and intraspecies comparisons revealed
differences in the kinds of sequence changes that have accumulated.
Sequence divergence in and around the Adh gene was used to assess inter-
and intraspecies evolutionary relationships. Finally, there appears to be
an unrelated structural gene located directly 3' of the Adh transcribed
region.
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