title: Human aldehyde dehydrogenase. cDNA cloning and primary structure of the enzyme that catalyzes dehydrogenation of 4-aminobutyraldehyde.
abstract: Human liver aldehyde dehydrogenase (E3 isozyme), with wide substrate specificity and low Km for 4-aminobutyraldehyde, was only recently characterized [Kurys, G., Ambroziak, W. & Pietruszko, R. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 4715-4721] and in this study we report on its primary structure. Polyclonal antibodies, specific for the E3 isozyme and three oligonucleotide probes derived from amino acid sequence of the E3 protein, were used for isolation of the first cDNA clone encoding the human enzyme (1503 bp; coding for 440 amino acid residues). Additional clones were obtained by using the first isolated clone as a probe. The largest clone of 1635 bp coded for 462 amino acid residues; it was longer at the 3'end of the cDNA non-coding region. The identity of the clone was established by DNA sequencing and by comparison with peptide sequences derived from the E3 protein, which constituted approximately 29% of the total primary structure of the E3 isozyme. The start codon was never encountered despite a variety of different approaches (500 amino acid residues were expected on the basis of SDS-gel molecular-mass determination of the E3 isozyme subunit). Despite the great catalytic similarity between the E3 and E1 isozymes [Ambroziak, W. & Pietruszko, R. (1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 13011-13018], the primary structure of the E3 isozyme has only approximately 40.6% of positional identity with that of the E1 isozyme. Sequence comparison with GenBank and Protein Identification Resource database sequences indicated no primary structure of aldehyde dehydrogenase more closely resembling the E3 isozyme than that of Escherichia coli betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (52.7% positional identity), a prokaryotic enzyme specific for betaine aldehyde.
authors.affiliation: Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0969.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kurys
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kikonygo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ambroziak
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pietruszko
mesh_terms: D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000447:Aldehydes / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002384:Catalysis; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006801:Humans; D006865:Hydrogenation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; C006509:4-aminobutyraldehyde; D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase