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Alcohol metabolizing enzymes: Studies of isozymes in human biopsies and cultured fibroblasts
Author(s) -
Goedde H. W.,
Agarwal D. P.,
Harada S.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1979.tb00845.x
Subject(s) - isozyme , enzyme , biochemistry , biology
Rapid and sensitive micromethods for the study of alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase isozymes in skin extracts, cultured fibroblasts and other organs are presented. Possibilities for the application of these techniques to the study of interindividual variations in response to alcohol are discussed. While fibroblasts cultured from a skin biopsy from one Japanese individual revealed a heterodimer (ADH 2 2‐1) of alcohol dehydrogenase, skin extract from another Japanese showed a homodimer (ADH 2 2‐2). Up to four isozyme sets for aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) were detected in various human organs and at least three sets were found in skin and fibroblast extracts. Our preliminary data on liver, stomach, and skin indicate that ALDH is polymorphic and several loci are concerned in the determination of these isozyme sets.