Human liver alcohol dehydrogenase

Residual activity in carboxymethylated liver alcohol dehydrogenase.

The physiological role of liver alcohol dehydrogenase.

1. Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase was used to determine ethanol in the portal and hepatic veins and in the contents of the alimentary canal of rats given a diet free from ethanol. Measurable amounts of a substance behaving like ethanol were found. Its rate of interaction with yeast alcohol dehydrogenase and its volatility indicate that the substance measured was in fact ethanol. 2. The mean alcoho...

Kinetic studies of liver alcohol dehydrogenase.

1. NADH2 prepared by enzymic reduction of pure NAD by the method of Rafter & Colowick (1957), and isolated as the sodium salt, gives higher maxrimum rates of reduction of acetaldehyde with liver alcohol dehydrogenase at pH 6 than a number of commercial preparations of high purity. Maximum values of 2-4 for the extinction ratio E260/E340 and 2% for the proportion of inactive material absorbing a...

Human Liver Aldehyde Dehydrogenase

Human liver aldehyde dehydrogenase has been found to be capable of hydrolyzing p-nitrophenyl esters. Esterase and dehydrogenase activities exhibited identical ion exchange and affinity properties, indicating that the same protein catalyzes both reactions. Competitive inhibition of esterase activity by glyceraldehyde and chloral hydrate furnished evidence that p-nitrophenyl acetate was hydrolyze...

Immunohistochemical localization of human liver alcohol dehydrogenase in liver tissue, cultured fibroblasts, and HeLa cells.

Human liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH, EC 1.1.1.1) was purified by double ternary complex affinity chromatography on Sepharose-4-(3-[N-6 aminocaproyl]aminopropyl) pyrazole. The purified enzyme preparation still contains several isoenzymes reflecting the isoenzyme composition of the starting material. Antibodies against this mixture of isoenzymes were elicited in rabbits. The specificity of the...