Protein Information

Name alcohol dehydrogenase (protein family or complex)
Synonyms ADH; alcohol dehydrogenase; alcohol dehydrogenases

Compound Information

Name α-chlorohydrin
CAS 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol

Reference List

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3550385 Cunningham PR, Clark DP: The use of suicide substrates to select mutants of Escherichia coli lacking enzymes of alcohol fermentation. Mol Gen Genet. 1986 Dec;205(3):487-93.


Most also lacked the associated fermentative enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase.
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20056735 Chen YT, Liao JW, Hung DZ: Protective effects of fomepizole on 2-chloroethanol toxicity. Hum Exp Toxicol. 2010 Jun;29(6):507-12. Epub 2010 Jan 7.


Alcohol dehydrogenase and glutathione were hypothesized to be important in the metabolism of 2-CE.
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6353674 Sharkawi M, De Saint Blanquat G, Elfassy B: Inhibition of alcohol dehydrogenase by chloral hydrate and trichloroethanol: possible role in the chloral hydrate-ethanol interaction. Toxicol Lett. 1983 Jul;17(3-4):321-8.

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9881930 Faci A, Plaa GL, Sharkawi M: Chloral hydrate enhances ethanol-induced inhibition of methanol oxidation in mice. Toxicology. 1998 Nov 2;131(1):1-7.


This seems to result from inhibition of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase by chloral hydrate and trichloroethanol, its main metabolite.
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17321661 Skamarauskas J, Carter W, Fowler M, Madjd A, Lister T, Mavroudis G, Ray DE: The selective neurotoxicity produced by 3-chloropropanediol in the rat is not a result of energy deprivation. Toxicology. 2007 Apr 11;232(3):268-76. Epub 2007 Jan 21.


We were able to show that 3-CPD is a substrate for glutathione-S-transferase and also that, after bioactivation by alcohol dehydrogenase, it generates an irreversible inhibitor of glutathione reductase.
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1913979 Hahn H, Eder E, Deininger C: Genotoxicity of 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol in the SOS chromotest and in the Ames test. Chem Biol Interact. 1991;80(1):73-88.


We have investigated whether alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) catalysed activation to the highly mutagenic and carcinogenic 1,3-dichloroacetone or formation of epichlorohydrin or other genotoxic compounds play a role for mutagenicity and genotoxicity.
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2593173 Larson JL, Bull RJ: Effect of ethanol on the metabolism of trichloroethylene. J Toxicol Environ Health. 1989;28(4):395-406.


CH can either be oxidized by chloral hydrate dehydrogenase to trichloroacetic acid (TCA) or reduced by alcohol dehydrogenase to trichloroethanol (TCEtOH).
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