Protein Information

ID 473
Name aldehyde dehydrogenase (protein family or complex)
Synonyms aldehyde dehydrogenase; aldehyde dehydrogenases

Compound Information

ID 1225
Name acrolein
CAS 2-propenal

Reference

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
2916835 Mitchell DY, Petersen DR: Oxidation of aldehydic products of lipid peroxidation by rat liver microsomal aldehyde dehydrogenase. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1989 Feb 15;269(1):11-7.
Lipid peroxidation in microsomal membranes produces a large number of aldehydes, alcohols, and ketones, some of which have been shown to be cytotoxic. This study has determined the kinetic parameters for the oxidation of aldehyde lipid peroxidation products by purified rat hepatic microsomal aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). Livers were obtained from male Sprague-Dawley rats for preparation of microsomal ALDH which was purified 400-fold. Kinetic parameters, Vmax and V/K, were determined for saturated and unsaturated aldehydes of three to nine carbons in length in the presence of NAD+. Of the aldehydes examined, only acrolein and 4-hydroxynonenal were not oxidized by ALDH. The Vmax values (mumol NADH produced/min/mg protein) increased linearly with carbon chain length and ranged from 6.5 to 23 for the saturated series and 4.0 to 9.0 for the unsaturated aldehydes. The affinity constant V/K (nmol NADH produced/min/mg protein/nmol aldehyde/liter) also increased with carbon chain length and ranged from 12 to 9000 for the saturated aldehydes and 13 to 5300 for the unsaturated aldehydes. These results suggest that microsomal ALDH may serve a biological role for detoxification of reactive aldehydes produced by lipid peroxidation of microsomal membranes.
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