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Kato S, Alderman J, Lieber CS: Ethanol metabolism in alcohol dehydrogenase deficient deermice is mediated by the microsomal ethanol oxidizing system, not by catalase. Alcohol Alcohol Suppl. 1987;1:231-4.
The participation of the microsomal ethanol oxidizing system (MEOS) and catalase in total ethanol metabolism is reviewed. Non-alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) dependent pathways contribute to in vivo ethanol metabolism, but the respective role of each has long been debated. The principal data supporting a role for catalase is an occasionally reported moderate depression of ethanol metabolism after aminotriazole. In deermice lacking ADH, we observed a slight (though not statistically significant) decrease in basal ethanol metabolism of hepatocytes after aminotriazole. However, this decrease was found to parallel a similar inhibition of MEOS by aminotriazole, and thus may not reflect catalase mediated peroxidation in this animal. 1-butanol, a competitive inhibitor of ethanol oxidation by MEOS and not a substrate for catalase, decreased ethanol metabolism by hepatocytes in a concentration dependent manner. These results, as well as those from other investigators, indicate that MEOS mediates virtually all of non-ADH ethanol metabolism in vivo. |
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