Differences between Alcohol Dehydeogenases
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 72 (3), 443-452
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1977.tb11268.x
Abstract
Comparisons of the primary structures of yeast and horse liver alcohol dehydrogenases reveal that the enzymes are homologous but distantly related. The overall positional identity is 25% between common regions, and several deletions/insertions occur in either enzyme, the longest apparently corresponding to 21 residues, showing that the different subunit sizes are largely explained by internal differences. Variabilities in the structural similarities can be coupled with functional requirements but not directly with whole domains in the previously known tertiary structure of the horse protein. The two most similar regions of the enzymes affect active-site segments and the two most dissimilar regions seem to affect a loop structure without known function, and a segment participating in subunit interactions. The dissimilarities may probably be correlated with changes in zinc-binding properties and quaternary structures. The extra region corresponding to the large internal chain-length difference shows an apparent coincidence in sequence to a following segment of the horse enzyme, and additional elements of internal coincidences, or superficial similarities with other dehydrogenases, are noticed. These characteristics are not fully distinguishable from chance distributions but in view of the extensive species variations in alcohol dehydrogenases some evolutionary considerations may not be excluded, in which case a model relating all regions of these and associated enzymes to a common ancestor is shown to be compatible with all known observations.Keywords
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