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Merçot H, Defaye D, Capy P, Pla E, David JR. ALCOHOL TOLERANCE, ADH ACTIVITY, AND ECOLOGICAL NICHE OF DROSOPHILA SPECIES. Evolution 2017; 48:746-757. [PMID: 28568255 PMCID: PMC7163518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1994.tb01358.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/1993] [Accepted: 07/29/1993] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In vitro alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity was measured in adults of species belonging to Drosophila and to the related genus Zaprionus. Data were analyzed according to the known breeding sites and the level of ethanol tolerance of these species. Alcohol dehydrogenase activity was assayed with both ethanol (E) and isopropanol (I). Our results show a very broad range of activities among the 71 species investigated, the ratio of the highest value observed (D. melanogaster) to the lowest (D. pruinosa) being 65:1. A general positive correlation was found between the level of ADH activity and the capacity to detoxify ethanol. Nevertheless, many species show exceptions to this rule. Contrary to a logical expectation, adaptation to high alcoholic resources, which has been a recurrent evolutionary event, was not mediated by a more efficient use of ethanol, that is, an increase of the E/I ratio. This ratio seems to be quite variable according to the phylogeny and is especially low in the subgenus Sophophora as well as in Zaprionus. Alcohol tolerance clearly is related to the larval habitat of the species and shows that adaptation to alcoholic resources has been a major evolutionary challenge in drosophilids. This adaptation is not related to phylogeny, having occurred independently several times during the evolution of the group. Finally, it should be borne in mind that, besides metabolization and detoxification, other physiological processes such as nervous‐system tolerance or ethanol excretion may be involved in ethanol tolerance, and such functions also should be investigated. Environmental ethanol, which is certainly a major ecological parameter for many drosophilids, has selected a diversity of physiological adaptations, all related to the Adh locus, but presumably much more complicated than was previously believed.
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- Herve Merçot
- Institut Jacques Monod, Laboratoire Dynamique du Génome et Evolution. Tour 42-4. CNRS - Université Paris 7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251, Paris, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Zoologie des Arthropodes. 61 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique Evolutives, CNRS, 91198, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique Evolutives, CNRS, 91198, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique Evolutives, CNRS, 91198, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Younus F, Chertemps T, Pearce SL, Pandey G, Bozzolan F, Coppin CW, Russell RJ, Maïbèche-Coisne M, Oakeshott JG. Identification of candidate odorant degrading gene/enzyme systems in the antennal transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 53:30-43. [PMID: 25038463 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2014.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Revised: 07/03/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The metabolism of volatile signal molecules by odorant degrading enzymes (ODEs) is crucial to the ongoing sensitivity and specificity of chemoreception in various insects, and a few specific esterases, cytochrome P450s, glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) and UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) have previously been implicated in this process. Significant progress has been made in characterizing ODEs in Lepidoptera but very little is known about them in Diptera, including in Drosophila melanogaster, a major insect model. We have therefore carried out a transcriptomic analysis of the antennae of D. melanogaster in order to identify candidate ODEs. Virgin male and female and mated female antennal transcriptomes were determined by RNAseq. As with the Lepidoptera, we found that many esterases, cytochrome P450 enzymes, GSTs and UGTs are expressed in D. melanogaster antennae. As olfactory genes generally show selective expression in the antennae, a comparison to previously published transcriptomes for other tissues has been performed, showing preferential expression in the antennae for one esterase, JHEdup, one cytochrome P450, CYP308a1, and one GST, GSTE4. These largely uncharacterized enzymes are now prime candidates for ODE functions. JHEdup was expressed heterologously and found to have high catalytic activity against a chemically diverse group of known ester odorants for this species. This is a finding consistent with an ODE although it might suggest a general role in clearing several odorants rather than a specific role in clearing a particular odorant. Our findings do not preclude the possibility of odorant degrading functions for other antennally expressed esterases, P450s, GSTs and UGTs but, if so, they suggest that these enzymes also have additional functions in other tissues.
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- Faisal Younus
- CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences, Black Mountain, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, F-75252 Paris, France
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- CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences, Black Mountain, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences, Black Mountain, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, F-75252 Paris, France
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- CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences, Black Mountain, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences, Black Mountain, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, F-75252 Paris, France
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- CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences, Black Mountain, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
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Palermo AM, Mudry MD. Genotoxic damage induced by isopropanol in germinal and somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster. MUTATION RESEARCH-GENETIC TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS 2011; 726:215-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2011.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2011] [Revised: 09/20/2011] [Accepted: 09/21/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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ELAMRANI A, DAVID JR, IDAOMAR M. Parallel changes in enzyme activity and oviposition behavior in adults ofDrosophila melanogastersubmitted to alcohols, acetaldehyde or acetone. INVERTEBR REPROD DEV 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/07924259.2001.9652494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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White LD, Jacobson JW. Insertion of the retroposable element, jockey, near the Adh gene of Drosophila melanogaster is associated with altered gene expression. Genet Res (Camb) 1996; 68:203-9. [PMID: 9062077 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300034170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) gene of Drosophila melanogaster is well suited to be a gene expression reporter system. Adh produces a measurable phenotype at both the enzyme and mRNA levels. We recovered a spontaneous transposable element (TE) insertion mutation near the Adh gene. The insertion is a truncated retroposable element, jockey, inserted upstream of the adult Adh enhancer region. Comparisons between the Adhjockey allele and its direct wild-type ancestral allele were made in an isogenic background (i.e. identical cis and trans factors). Differences in Adhjockey expression compared with the wild-type can be attributed solely to the presence of the jockey element. This jockey insertion results in a decrease in adult mRNA transcript levels in the Adhjockey homozygous lines relative to the wild-type counterpart and accounts for a correlated decrease in alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme activity. The larval ADH activity levels are not detectably different.
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- L D White
- Department of Biology, University of Houston, TX 77204-5513, USA.
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Garrido JJ, Barbancho M. Tolerance to 1-pentene-3-ol and to 1-pentene-3-one in relation to alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldo keto reductase (AKR) activities in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem Genet 1990; 28:513-22. [PMID: 2128177 DOI: 10.1007/bf00554379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The detoxification of 1-pentene-3-ol (pentenol) and 1-pentene-3-one (pentenone) by Drosophila melanogaster adult flies has been studied in two homozygous lines for the AdhF and AdhS alleles (LRC lines), in their respective lines selected for tolerance to ethanol (LRSe lines) and in a homozygous strain for the Adhn4 null allele. For each line, the genotype and sex LDs50 of both compounds were estimated. Then, in order to explain the differences in LD50, both alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldo keto reductase (AKR) activities were assayed. In addition, the effects of pentenone on AKR activity were also studied. Our results show that ADH-positive flies exhibit a much higher sensitivity to pentenol than ADH-null flies. However, both ADH-positive and ADH-null flies show a similar tolerance to pentenone. Our results show that flies selected for improving tolerance to ethanol also have increased tolerance to pentenol (FF and SS flies) and pentenone (SS flies). However, this improved ability to tolerate pentenol and/or pentenone cannot be explained by changes in ADH or AKR activities. On the other hand, we have observed a beneficial effect of pentenol, but not of pentenone, in n4 flies. We also show that AKR activity is not modified by the administration of pentenone. These results suggest that, in the absence of ADH activity, pentenol may be transformed into a compound that is less toxic than pentenone and that pentenone itself might also be transformed into a less toxic compound.
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- J J Garrido
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
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Geer BW, Dybas LK, Shanner LJ. Alcohol dehydrogenase and ethanol tolerance at the cellular level in Drosophila melanogaster. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1989; 250:22-39. [PMID: 2498460 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402500105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Exposure of early third instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster to a nonlethal dose of ethanol was detrimental to larvae lacking alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) but beneficial to wild-type larvae in terms of surviving a later ethanol tolerance test, indicating that one of the important functions of the ADH system is to supply derivatives of ethanol to larvae that in turn promote ethanol tolerance. High intracellular concentrations of ethanol in ADH-deficient (Adhn2) larvae fed ethanol were accompanied by a decrease in the cell membrane infoldings of fat body cells, suggesting that the capacities to absorb and release molecules were reduced. Marked effects of ethanol on the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria of ADH-deficient larvae were also evident. The absence of similar changes in wild-type larvae that were fed moderate levels of ethanol showed that the ADH system kept the intracellular level of ethanol at a concentration low enough to avoid cell damage. A cytometric analysis of electron micrographs showed that there were ethanol-induced reductions in glycogen, lipid, and protein stores in the fat body cells of ADH-deficient larvae fed 1.25% ethanol (v/v) compared with null larvae fed an ethanol-free diet. This finding implied that the capacities to synthesize or store these compounds may be limited by high intracellular concentrations of ethanol. The cytometric analysis also revealed that the consumption of diets containing 2.5% and 4.5% ethanol by Canton-S wild-type larvae for 3 days after 4 days of feeding on an ethanol-free diet resulted in decreases in glycogen and protein deposits in fat body cells, but increased the amount of lipid deposits compared to larvae fed an ethanol-free diet. This observation, coupled with the greater weight of wild-type adults that were fed a growth-limiting concentration of ethanol compared with control adults, suggested that a metabolic defense mechanism in larvae is to convert toxic ethanol to nontoxic storage products. Dietary ethanol alone and in combination with isopropanol stimulated an increase in the size of the NAD-pool in larvae, a condition that may favor the activity of ADH. A low dietary level of isopropanol (1%) completely blocked glycogen deposition in wild-type larvae, whereas ethanol did not. Thus ethanol and isopropanol exert some different toxic effects on larval fat bodies.
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- B W Geer
- Department of Biology, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois 61401
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Garrido JJ, Dorado G, Barbancho M. Participation of Drosophila melanogaster alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) in the detoxification of 1-pentene-3-ol and 1-pentene-3-one. Heredity (Edinb) 1988; 61 ( Pt 1):85-91. [PMID: 3139586 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1988.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The participation of the ADH enzymes in the detoxification by D. melanogaster of 1-pentene-3-ol (also called pentenol) and its oxidized product, 1-pentene-3-one (usually known as ethyl-vinyl-ketone or pentenone) have been studied using the LR lines. For this purpose flies of AdhS AdhS (SS) and AdhF AdhF (FF) genotypes were independently pretreated with a 2 per cent isopropanol (2-propanol) solution and the survivors exposed to water, to a 0.0075 per cent pentenol solution or to a 0.00375 per cent pentenone solution. After one day in these solutions, the ability to tolerate both compounds was checked and the ADH activity of the surviving flies was measured and compared with those of control flies not pretreated with isopropanol. Additionally, the effects of pentenone on ADH enzymes have been studied by comparing them with those of acetone. Our results show that, in contrast to acetone, pentenone neither reduced significantly the ADH activity in vivo nor altered the normal proportion of ADH isozymes of either SS or FF flies. Our findings also demonstrate that the isopropanol pretreatment implied a considerable decrease in sensitivity not only to pentenol (60 and 91 per cent for SS and FF flies, respectively) but also to pentenone (72 and 80 per cent for SS and FF flies, respectively). After isopropanol pretreatment, FF flies continued exhibiting higher ADH activities than SS ones. However, FF pretreated flies displayed higher tolerance to pentenol and a similar tolerance to pentenone than SS animals. Our results suggest that pentenol (unsaturated secondary alcohol) and isopropanol (saturated secondary alcohol) may be detoxified by slightly different processes (both ADH-activity-dependent), and that pentenone could not be accumulated in the fly but transformed into another compound(s) by means of some ADH-independent mechanism(s).
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- J J Garrido
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
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Benner S, Ellington AD. Interpreting the behavior of enzymes: purpose or pedigree? CRC CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 23:369-426. [PMID: 3067974 DOI: 10.3109/10409238809082549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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To interpret the growing body of data describing the structural, physical, and chemical behaviors of biological macromolecules, some understanding must be developed to relate these behaviors to the evolutionary processes that created them. Behaviors that are the products of natural selection reflect biological function and offer clues to the underlying chemical principles. Nonselected behaviors reflect historical accident and random drift. This review considers experimental data relevant to distinguishing between nonfunctional and functional behaviors in biological macromolecules. In the first segment, tools are developed for building functional and historical models to explain macromolecular behavior. These tools are then used with recent experimental data to develop a general outline of the relationship between structure, behavior, and natural selection in proteins and nucleic acids. In segments published elsewhere, specific functional and historical models for three properties of enzymes--kinetics, stereospecificity, and specificity for cofactor structures--are examined. Functional models appear most suitable for explaining the kinetic behavior of proteins. A mixture of functional and historical models appears necessary to understand the stereospecificity of enzyme reactions. Specificity for cofactor structures appears best understood in light of purely historical models based on a hypothesis of an early form of life exclusively using RNA catalysis.
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- S Benner
- Organische Chemie, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland
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Guillén E, Sánchez-Cañete FJ, Garrido JJ, Dorado G, Barbancho M. Intergenotypic effect of isopropanol ingestion in the further detoxification of ethanol and isopropanol in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 1987; 59 ( Pt 3):405-11. [PMID: 3123426 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1987.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The effect of isopropanol ingestion on a further tolerance to ethanol and isopropanol, and its relationship with the Adh locus, have been studied using Drosophila melanogaster selected for tolerance to ethanol. For this purpose, AdhF AdhF, AdhF AdhS and AdhS AdhS flies were independently pretreated with 2 per cent isopropanol and then further exposed to solutions of 10 per cent ethanol or of 2 per cent isopropanol. Afterwards, the ability to tolerate both alcohols, and the ADH activities of the surviving flies were compared with those of flies not pretreated with isopropanol. After isopropanol ingestion, the flies of all three Adh genotypes shown much higher sensitivity to ethanol than to isopropanol although the opposite results were observed in flies not pretreated with isopropanol. Isopropanol treatment decreased the ADH activity in flies of all three genotypes within a range varying from 73 per cent (females FF) to 93 per cent (males FS), the remaining ADH activity being between 2 to 3 times higher in FF than in FS and SS flies. The reduction in ADH activity was associated with the phenomenon of ADH isozyme interconversion. After the isopropanol pretreatment, the most isopropanol tolerant flies (FF) were also the most ADH active ones. Therefore, the adaptative significance of the isozyme conversion is questioned.
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- E Guillén
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
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Barbancho M, Sánchez-Cañete FJ, Dorado G, Pineda M. Relation between tolerance to ethanol and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity in Drosophila melanogaster: selection, genotype and sex effects. Heredity (Edinb) 1987; 58 ( Pt 3):443-50. [PMID: 3110111 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1987.73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The suggestion of Oakeshott et al. (1984) that selection at the Adh locus, as a response to ethanol, is restricted to D. melanogaster laboratory-adapted populations, is tested in this paper with the "Lagar de los Reyes" (LR) lines. For this purpose, homozygous lines for the AdhF and the AdhS alleles were maintained on food supplemented with ethanol. After the selection, the ethanol tolerance and the ADH activity of the selected flies (LRSeF and LRSeS) were determined and compared with those of the control flies (LRCF and LRCS), maintained on standard medium. Then, the effects of the selection, genotype and sex, and the relation between ethanol tolerance and ADH activity were analysed. Our results fail to show a consistent correlation between ethanol tolerance and ADH activity in the adults of LR lines. Our findings also indicate that adaptation of D. melanogaster to ethanol-containing food could be accomplished without significant changes on the ADH activity in the adults. The possibility that the adaptation of D. melanogaster to environmental ethanol could be independent of the Adh locus is discussed.
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Heinstra PW, Aben WJ, Scharloo W, Thörig GE. Alcohol dehydrogenase of Drosophila melanogaster: metabolic differences mediated through cryptic allozymes. Heredity (Edinb) 1986; 57 ( Pt 1):23-9. [PMID: 2943701 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1986.82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Acetone formation from propan-2-ol, a saturated secondary alcohol, has been analysed in flies of three different Adh-genotypes of D. melanogaster. The in vivo oxidation of propan-2-ol was mainly mediated through ADH activity. It could be demonstrated that flies homozygous for the Adh71k allele produced more acetone than flies homozygous for AdhF. This difference in metabolic flux mediated through the cryptic allozymes under non-saturated ADH-substrate conditions seems to be based on their different kinetic properties in vivo. Product inhibition of ADH monitored by means of ADH-isozymes conversion as observed after electrophoresis was similar for both cryptic allozymes. ADH-71k and ADH-F showed immunological identity, and the in vivo protein levels of ADH-71k were 25-30 per cent higher than ADH-F. The population-genetic implications of our findings have been evaluated.
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Ethanol and Isopropanol detoxification associated with the Adh locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 1986. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1986.28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Development of tolerance to ethanol in relation to the alcohol dehydrogenase locus in Drosophila melanogaster 1. Adult and egg-to-adult survival in relation to ADH activity. Heredity (Edinb) 1985. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1985.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Geer BW, Langevin ML, McKechnie SW. Dietary ethanol and lipid synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem Genet 1985; 23:607-22. [PMID: 2932099 DOI: 10.1007/bf00504295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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When cultured on a defined diet, ethanol was an efficient substrate for lipid synthesis in wild-type Drosophila melanogaster larvae. At certain dietary levels both ethanol and sucrose could displace the other as a lipid substrate. In wild-type larvae more than 90% of the flux from ethanol to lipid was metabolized via the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) system. The ADH and aldehyde dehydrogenase activities of ADH were modulated in tandem by dietary ethanol, suggesting that ADH provided substrate for lipogenesis by degrading ethanol to acetaldehyde and then to acetic acid. The tissue activity of catalase was suppressed by dietary ethanol, implying that catalase was not a major factor in ethanol metabolism in larvae. The activities of lipogenic enzymes, sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, fatty acid synthetase (FAS), and ADH, together with the triacylglycerol (TG) content of wild-type larvae increased in proportion to the dietary ethanol concentration to 4.5% (v/v). Dietary ethanol inhibited FAS and repressed the accumulation of TG in ADH-deficient larvae, suggesting that the levels of these factors may be subject to a complex feedback control.
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Atrian S, Gonzàlez-Duarte R. An aldo-keto reductase activity in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila hydei: A possible function in alcohol metabolism. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(85)90095-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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David JR, Daly K, Van Herrewege J. Acetaldehyde utilization and toxicity in Drosophila adults lacking alcohol dehydrogenase or aldehyde oxidase. Biochem Genet 1984; 22:1015-29. [PMID: 6442148 DOI: 10.1007/bf00499628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Metabolic utilization and toxicity of acetaldehyde were studied in flies lacking alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), aldehyde oxidase (AO), or both functions. Prior to the experiments, mutant alleles Adhn4 and mal were transferred to the same genetic background by 10 successive backcrosses. By comparison with wild-type flies, various deleterious, pleiotropic effects could be attributed to the mal allele but not to Adhn4. Of the four genotypes studied (mal, Adhn4, mal Adhn4, and wild), all were able to use acetaldehyde as a resource in a similar way. In spite of its high toxicity, acetaldehyde appeared a better resource than ethanol. Flies treated with intermediate acetaldehyde concentrations (around 0.5%) exhibited a very high interindividual heterogeneity which could reflect a physiological adaptation occurring as a consequence of the aldehyde treatment. Toxicity tests showed that ADH-negative flies were more sensitive to acetaldehyde than wild type, but this is most likely explained by the transformation of the aldehyde into alcohol. Our results show that the aldehyde metabolizing enzyme (AME) system in Drosophila is neither ADH nor AO. The existence of an aldehyde dehydrogenase is plausible.
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Dorado G, Barbancho M. Differential responses in Drosophila melanogaster to environmental ethanol: modification of fitness components at the Adh locus. Heredity (Edinb) 1984. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1984.90] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Van Herrewege J, David JR. Extension of life duration by dietary ethanol in Drosophila melanogaster: response to selection in two strains of different origins. Genetica 1984. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00137466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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