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PROSITE documentation PDOC00059Iron-containing alcohol dehydrogenases signatures
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Description
Alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1) (ADH) catalyzes the reversible oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde with the concomitant reduction of NAD [1]. Currently three, structurally and catalytically, different types of alcohol dehydrogenases are known:
- Zinc-containing 'long-chain' alcohol dehydrogenases.
- Insect-type, or 'short-chain' alcohol dehydrogenases.
- Iron-containing alcohol dehydrogenases.
Iron-containing ADH's have been found in yeast (gene ADH4) [2], as well as in Zymomonas mobilis (gene adhB) [3]. These two iron-containing ADH's are closely related to the following enzymes:
- Escherichia coli propanediol oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.77) (gene fucO) [4], an enzyme involved in the metabolism of fucose and which also seems to contain ferrous ion(s).
- Clostridium acetobutylicum NADPH- and NADH-dependent butanol dehydrogenases (EC 1.1.1.-) (genes adh1, bdhA and bdhB) [5], an enzyme which has activity using butanol and ethanol as substrates.
- Escherichia coli adhE [6], an iron-dependent enzyme which harbor three different activities: alcohol dehydrogenase, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (acetylating) (EC 1.2.1.10) and pyruvate-formate-lyase deactivase.
- Bacterial glycerol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.6) (gene gldA or dhaD) [7].
- Clostridium kluyveri NAD-dependent 4-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (4hbd) (EC 1.1.1.61).
- Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae 1,3-propanediol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.202) (gene dhaT).
- Bacillus methanolicus NAD-dependent methanol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.244) [8].
- Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium ethanolamine utilization protein eutG.
- Escherichia coli hypothetical protein yiaY.
- Escherichia coli hypothetical protein ybdH.
- Escherichia coli hypothetical protein yqhD.
- Methanococcus jannaschii hypothetical protein MJ0712.
The patterns that we developed to detect this class of enzymes are based on two conserved regions.
Last update:July 1998 / Patterns and text revised.
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References
| 1 | Authors | Branden C.-I. Joernvall H. Eklund H. Furugren B. |
| Source | (In) The Enzymes (3rd edition) 11:104-190(1975). |
| 2 | Authors | Conway T. Sewell G.W. Osman Y.A. Ingram L.O. |
| Title | Cloning and sequencing of the alcohol dehydrogenase II gene from Zymomonas mobilis. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 169:2591-2597(1987). | |
| PubMed ID | 3584063 |
| 3 | Authors | Williamson V.M. Paquin C.E. |
| Title | Homology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADH4 to an iron-activated alcohol dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis. | |
| Source | Mol. Gen. Genet. 209:374-381(1987). | |
| PubMed ID | 2823079 |
| 4 | Authors | Conway T. Ingram L.O. |
| Title | Similarity of Escherichia coli propanediol oxidoreductase (fucO product) and an unusual alcohol dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 171:3754-3759(1989). | |
| PubMed ID | 2661535 |
| 5 | Authors | Walter K.A. Bennett G.N. Papoutsakis E.T. |
| Title | Molecular characterization of two Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 butanol dehydrogenase isozyme genes. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 174:7149-7158(1992). | |
| PubMed ID | 1385386 |
| 6 | Authors | Kessler D. Leibrecht I. Knappe J. |
| Title | Pyruvate-formate-lyase-deactivase and acetyl-CoA reductase activities of Escherichia coli reside on a polymeric protein particle encoded by adhE. | |
| Source | FEBS Lett. 281:59-63(1991). | |
| PubMed ID | 2015910 |
| 7 | Authors | Truniger V. Boos W. |
| Title | Mapping and cloning of gldA, the structural gene of the Escherichia coli glycerol dehydrogenase. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 176:1796-1800(1994). | |
| PubMed ID | 8132480 |
| 8 | Authors | de Vries G.E. Arfman N. Terpstra P. Dijkhuizen L. |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 174:5346-5353(1992). |
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