The P450 2E1-catalyzed oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde is characterized by a kinetic deuterium isotope effect that increases K(m) with no effect on k(cat), and rate-limiting product release has been proposed to account for the lack of an isotope effect on k(cat) (Bell, L. C., and Guengerich, F. P. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 29643-29651). Acetaldehyde is also a substrate for P450 2E1 oxidat...

The effects of acute and chronic treatment with ethanol on transport of reducing equivalents into mitochondria via the malate-aspartate shuttle were studied in perfused rat liver. The shuttle capacity was estimated from the decrease in rates of glucose production from the reduced substrate sorbitol caused by an increase in the NADH/NAD+ ratio in the cytosol due to metabolism of ethanol. The gre...

Experimental profiles of stable species mole fractions are reported for ethanol oxidation in a Variable Pressure Flow Reactor (VPFR) at initial temperatures of 800-950K and constant pressures of 3 to 12atm. A detailed mechanism for ethanol combustion is developed in a hierarchical manner, and at each level, the newly added portions of the mechanism are tested by thorough comparison of model pre...

In this paper, the main characteristics of ethanol electrooxidation are presented and the results of electrochemical and spectroscopic methods are discussed. The total oxidation reaction should produce 12 e/molecule. However, on Pt catalysts, the reaction follows parallel pathways forming acetaldehyde, acetic acid and carbon dioxide as soluble products. Thus much lower yields of charge per etha...

Pelobacter carbinolicus and P. acetylenicus oxidize ethanol in syntrophic cooperation with methanogens. Cocultures with Methanospirillum hungatei served as model systems for the elucidation of syntrophic ethanol oxidation previously done with the lost "Methanobacillus omelianskii" coculture. During growth on ethanol, both Pelobacter species exhibited NAD+-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase activit...

Electrochemical oxidation of four different alcohol molecules (methanol, ethanol, n-butanol and 2-butanol) at electrodeposited Pt film and carbon-supported Pt catalyst film electrodes, as well as the effect of mass transport on the oxidation reaction, has been studied systematically using the rotating disk electrode (RDE) technique. It was shown that oxidation current decreased with an increase...

A cytochrome P-450-rich fraction free of alcohol dehydrogenase activity and containing only small amounts of catalase was prepared from rat liver microsomes and shown to catalyze the NADPH-dependent oxidation of ethanol. The recoveries of cytochrome P-450 and the activity of the NADPH-dependent ethanol oxidation were 15.6% and 14.0%, respectively. The addition of separated cytochrome c reductas...

In this work, the electrocatalytic oxidation of ethanol was studied in acidic media at the wholly electrosynthesized nanocomposites: platinum and its alloys (copper and nickel) anoparticles/reduced graphene oxide on the carbon-ceramic electrode (Pt/rGO/CCE, Pt-Cu/rGO/CCE, and Pt-Ni/rGO/CCE electrocatalysts). The electrosynthesized nanocomposites were characterized by scan...

The electrochemical oxidation on platinum and platinum rhodium bimetallic electrodes was studied by Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry for several ethanol concentrations in solution. It is found that increasing the ethanol concentration the production of the partially oxidized products (acetaldehyde) increases as the concentration increases. On the other hand, addition of 25% at. of...

Ethanol consumption affects maternal nutrition, the mothers' antioxidant balance and the future health of their progeny. Selenium (Se) is a trace element cofactor of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase (GPx). We will study the effect of ethanol on Se bioavailability in dams and in their progeny. We have used three experimental groups of dams: control, chronic ethanol and pair-fed; and three group...