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Methanol and ethanol were rapidly metabolized to formaldehyde and
acetaldehyde
in the presence of ascorbate, 1,10-phenanthroline and either guinea pig hepatic 100,000 g supernatant or 12,000 g pellet fractions. The specific activity of methanol oxidation was 1720 nmoles formaldehyde formed/min/mg protein in the 100,000 g fraction and 790 in the 12,000 g pellet fraction. The specific activity of ethanol oxidation was 1590 nmoles
acetaldehyde
formed/min/mg protein in the 100,000 g fraction and 820 in the 12,000 g pellet fraction. The activity was enzymatic in that it was linear with time, proportional to protein concentration, and sensitive to temperature. Catalase appeared to be the enzymatic component responsible for the oxidation. In this ascorbate-dependent alcohol oxidation system, oxygen was consumed and H2O2 was formed. When purified catalase and ascorbate were used,
complex I
was detected and methanol was oxidized.
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PMID:Ascorbic acid and alcohol oxidation. 650 46
In rapidly fermenting yeast, the rotenone insensitive mitochondrial
NADH dehydrogenase
was not completely repressed by high glucose. This activity appeared to enhance the glycolytic rate due to which
acetaldehyde
accumulated intracellularly. To overcome the toxicity of
acetaldehyde
, the strain produced stress proteins. During late stationary phase of growth, the accumulated
acetaldehyde
was converted to ethanol resulting in faster ethanol production.
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PMID:Mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase activity and ability to tolerate acetaldehyde determine faster ethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 888 80
NDI1 is the unique gene encoding the internal mitochondrial
NADH dehydrogenase
of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The enzyme catalyzes the transfer of electrons from intramitochondrial NADH to ubiquinone. Surprisingly, NDI1 is not essential for respiratory growth. Here we demonstrate that this is due to in vivo activity of an ethanol-
acetaldehyde
redox shuttle, which transfers the redox equivalents from the mitochondria to the cytosol. Cytosolic NADH can be oxidized by the external NADH dehydrogenases. Deletion of ADH3, encoding mitochondrial alcohol dehydrogenase, did not affect respiratory growth in aerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures. Also, an ndi1Delta mutant was capable of respiratory growth under these conditions. However, when both ADH3 and NDI1 were deleted, metabolism became respirofermentative, indicating that the ethanol-
acetaldehyde
shuttle is essential for respiratory growth of the ndi1 delta mutant. In anaerobic batch cultures, the maximum specific growth rate of the adh3 delta mutant (0.22 h(-1)) was substantially reduced compared to that of the wild-type strain (0.33 h(-1)). This is consistent with the hypothesis that the ethanol-
acetaldehyde
shuttle is also involved in maintenance of the mitochondrial redox balance under anaerobic conditions. Finally, it is shown that another mitochondrial alcohol dehydrogenase is active in the adh3 delta ndi1 delta mutant, contributing to residual redox-shuttle activity in this strain.
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PMID:The mitochondrial alcohol dehydrogenase Adh3p is involved in a redox shuttle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 1094 11
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, reduction of NAD(+) to NADH occurs in dissimilatory as well as in assimilatory reactions. This review discusses mechanisms for reoxidation of NADH in this yeast, with special emphasis on the metabolic compartmentation that occurs as a consequence of the impermeability of the mitochondrial inner membrane for NADH and NAD(+). At least five mechanisms of NADH reoxidation exist in S. cerevisiae. These are: (1) alcoholic fermentation; (2) glycerol production; (3) respiration of cytosolic NADH via external mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenases; (4) respiration of cytosolic NADH via the glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle; and (5) oxidation of intramitochondrial NADH via a mitochondrial 'internal'
NADH dehydrogenase
. Furthermore, in vivo evidence indicates that NADH redox equivalents can be shuttled across the mitochondrial inner membrane by an ethanol-
acetaldehyde
shuttle. Several other redox-shuttle mechanisms might occur in S. cerevisiae, including a malate-oxaloacetate shuttle, a malate-aspartate shuttle and a malate-pyruvate shuttle. Although key enzymes and transporters for these shuttles are present, there is as yet no consistent evidence for their in vivo activity. Activity of several other shuttles, including the malate-citrate and fatty acid shuttles, can be ruled out based on the absence of key enzymes or transporters. Quantitative physiological analysis of defined mutants has been important in identifying several parallel pathways for reoxidation of cytosolic and intramitochondrial NADH. The major challenge that lies ahead is to elucidate the physiological function of parallel pathways for NADH oxidation in wild-type cells, both under steady-state and transient-state conditions. This requires the development of techniques for accurate measurement of intracellular metabolite concentrations in separate metabolic compartments.
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PMID:Stoichiometry and compartmentation of NADH metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 1115 39
Animals selectively bred for a desirable trait retain wanted genes but exclude genes that may counteract the expression of the former. The possible interactions between selected and excluded genes cannot be readily studied in transgenic or knockout animals but may be addressed by crossing animals bred for opposite traits and studying the F2 offspring. Ninety-seven percent of Wistar-derived rats selectively bred for their voluntary low-alcohol consumption display a mutated nuclear allele of aldehyde dehydrogenase Aldh22 that encodes an enzyme with a low affinity for NAD+, whereas rats bred for high-alcohol consumption do not present the Aldh22 allele. This enzyme is inserted into mitochondria, where
NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase
(complex I) regenerates NAD+. The possible influence of
complex I
on ALDH2 activity and voluntary ethanol intake was investigated. Homozygous Aldh22/Aldh22 rats derived from a line of high-drinker F0 females (and low-drinker F0 males) showed a markedly higher ethanol consumption (3.9=/-0.5 g x kg(-1) x day(-1)) than homozygous animals derived from a line of low-drinker F0 females (and high-drinker F0 males) (1.8+/-0.4 g x kg(-1) x day(-1)). Mitochondria of F2 rats derived from high alcohol-consuming females were more active in oxidizing substrates that generate NADH for
complex I
than were mitochondria derived from low alcohol-consuming females, leading in the former to higher rates of
acetaldehyde
metabolism and to a reduced aversion to ethanol. This is the first demonstration that maternally derived genes can either allow or counteract the phenotypic expression of a mutated gene in the context of alcohol abuse or alcoholism
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PMID:Complex I regulates mutant mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase activity and voluntary ethanol consumption in rats. 1562 93
Torulopsis glabrata CCTCC M202019 was mutated by ethidium bromide to screen for respiratory-deficient mutants. Seven mutants that produced pyruvate higher than that of the parent were subjected to the tests of the capability assimilating fermentable substrate (glucose) and non-fermentable substrates (glycerol and acetate) to characterize true respiratory-deficient mutants. Mutants RD-16, RD-17 and RD-18 were unable to assimilate acetate or glycerol and were therefore identified as respiratory-deficient mutants. Compared to the parent strain, the growth the intracellular ATP content of those mutants decreased by 21% - 29% and 15% - 21%, respectively, while the glucose consumption per cell and the pyruvate production per cell of those mutants were enhanced by 20.7% - 30.7% and 30.7% - 55.5%, respectively. Qualitative analysis of cytochromes involved in electron transfer chain showed that mutants RD-16 and RD-18 lacked both cytochrome aa3 and b, while mutant RD-17 lacked cytochrome b. Enzymes analysis indicated that the activities of ATPase, succinate-cytochrome c reductase (
complex I
),
complex I
+ III , complex II + III, and complex IV of those mutants decreased by 14.6% - 22.2%, 34% - 41%, 38.6% - 52.6%, 21% - 25%, and 150% - 630%, respectively. However, increased glucose consumption per cell was not observed in those mutants, which might be due to that the NADH generated in glycolysis can not be completely oxidized via electron transfer chain. To avoid the accumulation of NADH, 2.1 mmol/L
acetaldehyde
was added to the culture broth of mutant RD-17 at 26h of fermentation. Using this strategy, the amount of pyruvate produced increased by 21.6% while the fermentation time was shortened from 62h to 48h.
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PMID:[The decrease of the activity of electron transfer chain of Torulopsis glabrata enhanced pyruvate productivity]. 1611 Sep 64
This study aimed at increasing the pyruvate productivity of a multi-vitamin auxotrophic yeast Torulopsis glabrata by redirecting NADH oxidation from adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-production pathway (oxidative phosphorylation pathway) to non-ATP production pathway (fermentative pathway). Two respiratory-deficient mutants, RD-17 and RD-18, were screened and selected after ethidium bromide (EtBr) mutagenesis of the parent strain T. glabrata CCTCC M202019. Compared with the parent strain, cytochrome aa (3) and b in electron transfer chain (ETC) of RD-18 and cytochrome b in RD-17 were disrupted. As a consequence, the activities of key ETC enzymes of the mutant RD-18, including F(0)F(1)-ATP synthase,
complex I
,
complex I
+ III, complex II + III, and complex IV, decreased by 22.2, 41.6, 53.1, 23.6, and 84.7%, respectively. With the deficiency of cytochromes in ETC, a large amount of excessive cytosolic NADH was accumulated, which hampered the further increase of the glycolytic flux. An exogenous electron acceptor,
acetaldehyde
, was added to the strain RD-18 culture to oxidize the excessive NADH. Compared with the parent strain, the concentration of pyruvate and the glucose consumption rate of strain RD-18 were increased by 26.5 and 17.6%, respectively, upon addition of 2.1 mM of
acetaldehyde
. The strategy for increasing the glycolytic flux in T. glabrata by redirecting the NADH oxidation pathway may provide an alternative approach to enhance the glycolytic flux in yeast.
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PMID:Redirection of the NADH oxidation pathway in Torulopsis glabrata leads to an enhanced pyruvate production. 1640 61
Ethanol non-drinker (UChA) and drinker (UChB) rat lines derived from an original Wistar colony have been selectively bred at the University of Chile for over 70 generations. Two main differences between these lines are clear. (1) Drinker rats display a markedly faster acute tolerance than non-drinker rats. In F2 UChA x UChB rats (in which all genes are 'shuffled'), a high acute tolerance of the offspring predicts higher drinking than a low acute tolerance. It is further shown that high-drinker animals 'learn' to drink, starting from consumption levels that are one half of the maximum consumptions reached after 1 month of unrestricted access to 10% ethanol and water. It is likely that acquired tolerance is at the basis of the increases in ethanol consumption over time. (2) Non-drinker rats carry a previously unreported allele of aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (Aldh2) that encodes an enzyme with a low affinity for Nicotinamide-adenine-dinuclectide (NAD+) (Aldh2(2)), while drinker rats present two Aldh2 alleles (Aldh2(1) and Aldh2(3)) with four- to fivefold higher affinities for NAD+. Further, the ALDH2 encoded by Aldh2(1) also shows a 33% higher Vmax than those encoded by Aldh2(2) and Aldh2(3). Maximal voluntary ethanol intakes are the following: UChA Aldh2(2)/Aldh2(2) = 0.3-0.6 g/kg/day; UChB Aldh2(3)/Aldh2(3) = 4.5-5.0 g/kg/day; UChB Aldh2(1)/Aldh2(1) = 7.0-7.5 g/kg/day. In F2 offspring of UChA x UChB, the Aldh2(2)/Aldh2(2) genotype predicts a 40-60% of the alcohol consumption. Studies also show that the low alcohol consumption phenotype of Aldh2(2)/Aldh2(2) animals depends on the existence of a maternally derived low-activity mitochondrial reduced form of nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide (NADH)-ubiquinone
complex I
. The latter does not influence ethanol consumption of animals exhibiting an ALDH2 with a higher affinity for NAD+. An illuminating finding is the existence of an '
acetaldehyde
burst' in animals with a low capacity to oxidize
acetaldehyde
, being fivefold higher in UChA than in UChB animals. We propose that such a burst results from a great generation of
acetaldehyde
by alcohol dehydrogenase in pre-steady-state conditions that is not met by the high rate of
acetaldehyde
oxidation in mitochondria. The
acetaldehyde
burst is seen despite the lack of differences between UChA and UChB rats in
acetaldehyde
levels or rates of alcohol metabolism in steady state. Inferences are drawn as to how these studies might explain the protection against alcoholism seen in humans that carry the high-activity alcohol dehydrogenase but metabolize ethanol at about normal rates.
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PMID:The UChA and UChB rat lines: metabolic and genetic differences influencing ethanol intake. 1696 61
Rotenone, a commonly used lipophic pesticide, is a high-affinity mitochondrial
complex I
inhibitor. The aim of this project is to study the causal relationship between changes of brain monoamine levels and drinking behavior in rotenone-treated mice. In the first experiment, we investigated the effects of acute exposure to rotenone (20 mg/kg, p.o.) on the 8-h time limited-access alcohol drinking behavior and brain monoamine levels in C57BL/6J mice at 0, 2, 8 and 24 h. Dopamine (DA), 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) levels in the nucleus accumbens (ACC), caudate-putamen (C/P) and lateral hypothalamus (LH) of rotenone-treated mice were decreased at 2 and/or 8 h. Rotenone-exposed mice showed a suppression of voluntary alcohol intake at 4 and 8 h, but total daily alcohol intake did not differ significantly between the two groups. The effects of chronic exposure to rotenone (1, 5, 10 and 20 mg/kg, p.o. for 30 days) on the alcohol drinking behavior and monoamine levels of rotenone-exposed mice (10 mg/kg, p.o.) were investigated in the second experiment. The mice treated with rotenone showed increases in alcohol drinking behavior. Levels of DA and 5-HT in the ACC and C/P of chronic rotenone-treated mice were decreased, while the ratios of DOPAC to DA in the ACC and C/P and of 5HIAA to 5-HT in the ACC, C/P and DRN were increased significantly. Tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity of chronic rotenone-treated mice (10 mg/kg, p.o.) slightly were decreased in both the striatum and the substantia nigra. Ethanol and
acetaldehyde
metabolism was not significantly different between mice treated with rotenone (10 mg/kg, p.o.) and controls. It was suggested that rotenone-treated mice had increased alcohol drinking behavior associated with increases in the DA turnover ratios of ACC and striatum to compensate for the neural degeneration.
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PMID:Administration of rotenone enhanced voluntary alcohol drinking behavior in C57BL/6J mice. 2254 49
Pregnant SD rats were exposed to ethanol (25 % (v/v) ethanol at 1.0, 2.0 or 4.0 g/kg body weight from GD8 to GD20) to assess whether ethanol-derived
acetaldehyde
could interact with endogenous monoamine to generate tetrahydroisoquinoline or tetrahydro-beta-carboline in the fetuses. The fetal brain concentration of
acetaldehyde
increased remarkably after ethanol administration (2.6 times, 5.3 times and 7.8 times as compared to saline control in 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 g/kg ethanol-treated groups, respectively) detected by HPLC with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine derivatization. Compared to control, ethanol exposure induced the formation of 1-methyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (salsolinol, Sal), N-methyl-salsolinol (NMSal) and 1-methyl-6-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline (6-OH-MTHBC) in fetal rat brains. Determined by HPLC with electrochemical detector, the levels of dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine in whole fetal brain were not remarkably altered by ethanol treatment, while the levels of homovanillic acid and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid in high dose (4.0 g/kg) of ethanol-treated rats were significantly decreased compared to that in the control animals. 4.0 g/kg ethanol administration inhibited the activity of mitochondrial monoamine oxidase (51.3 % as compared to control) and reduced the activity of respiratory chain
complex I
(61.2 % as compared to control). These results suggested that ethanol-induced alteration of monoamine metabolism and the accumulation of dopamine-derived catechol isoquinolines and 5-hydroxytryptamine-derived tetrahydro-beta-carbolines may play roles in the developmental dysfuction of monoaminergic neuronal systems.
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PMID:Increased levels of monoamine-derived potential neurotoxins in fetal rat brain exposed to ethanol. 2318 85
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