Restriction maps of a 12,000-nucleotide region containing the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus of the second chromosome of Drosophila were determined for (i) 18 independent second chromosome stocks of D. melanogaster established from several natural populations and (ii) five closely related Drosophila species. All of the detected map differences appear to lie outside the Adh coding block. Four...

We have isolated two cDNA clones for potato {Solatium tuberosum L. cv. Kennebec) alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH, EC. 1.1.1.1) from a tuber cDNA library (1). Each clone encodes a polypeptide of 380 amino acids that differ at only one position (amino acid 5). The nucleotide sequences show 96% identity These two sequences are highly similar with the sequence of another potato ADH cDNA clone (1) and th...

BACKGROUND Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a suspected human carcinogen and a common groundwater contaminant. Chloral hydrate (CH) is the major metabolite of TCE formed in the liver by cytochrome P450 2E1. CH is metabolized to the hepatocarcinogen trichloroacetate (TCA) by aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) and to the noncarcinogenic metabolite trichloroethanol (TCOH) by alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). ALDH...

An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) null mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (AdhnLA405) originally recovered following X-ray irradiation of mature sperm (Aaron, 979) is analyzed by Southern blotting, Western blotting, and DNA sequencing. The genetic, immunologic, and nucleic acid sequence data are consistent with the hypothesis that a cross-over event, independent of X-irradiation, between parental c...

A differential-type amperometric biosensor based on conventional thick-®lm technology has been developed for breath alcohol measurement. The amperometric breath alcohol biosensor utilizes the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD‡) cofactor which produce reduced NADH as a product of the oxidation of alcohol. The biosensor was designed in a differential format co...

Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) is highly conserved in size, organization, and amino acid sequence. Adh-psi was hypothesized to be a pseudogene derived from an Adh duplication in the repleta group of Drosophila; however, several results from molecular analyses of this gene conflict with currently held notions of molecular evolution. Perhaps the most difficult observations to reconcile wi...

An organism tentatively identified as Ralstonia eutropha was isolated from enrichment cultures containing tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) as the sole source of carbon and energy. The strain was able to tolerate up to 200 mM THFA in mineral salt medium. The degradation was initiated by an inducible ferricyanide-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) which was detected in the soluble fraction of...

Hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity is higher in female than in male rats. Although sex steroids, thyroid, and growth hormone (GH) have been shown to regulate hepatic ADH, the mechanism(s) for sexual dimorphic expression is unclear. We tested the possibility that the GH secretory pattern determined differential expression of ADH. Gonadectomized and hypophysectomized male and female rat...