Previous studies showed that fitter yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that can grow by fermenting glucose in the presence of allyl alc. These yeast may grow more slowly due to slower redn. The authors detd. The H15R substitution a test for electrostatic effects is on the surface of ADH and has small effects on the kinetics. The H44R substitution affecting interactions with the coenzyme pyrophosphate was previously shown to decrease affinity for coenzymes fold and turnover nos.
The W82R substitution is distant from the active site, but decreases turnover nos. The E67Q substitution near the catalytic zinc was shown previously to increase the Michaelis const. The W54R substitution, in the substrate binding site, increases kinetic consts. Growth on YPD plus 10 mM allyl alc. The fitter yeast are "bradytrophs" slow growing because the ADHs have decreased catalytic efficiency. The contributions of Ile and Ile of horse liver alc. The kinetic mechanisms of wild-type and both mutated liver enzymes were ordered.
The affinities for several adenosine derivs. The IS substitution increased the rate consts. The Vmax values for EtOH oxidn. Hydride transfer limited the rate of oxidn.
The relation between the size of the substrate-binding pocket and the catalytic reactivities with varied alcs. The yeast enzyme was most active with EtOH, and its activity decreased as the size of the alc. The W57M enzymes had lowered reactivity with primary and secondary alcs. The 3 Ala enzymes also acquired weak activity on branched-chain alcs. The substrate specificities of yeast alc. For this work, the gene for the S. ADH were similar.
The redn. The substituent effects on catalysis generally reflected the effects on the equil. The results were consistent with a transition state that was electronically similar to the alc.
By protein engineering tryptophan 93 and serine 48 in the substrate pocket of yeast alc. Upon changing threonine 48 to serine an enzyme was produced which has markedly greater activity towards aliph. Changes at position 93 were less pronounced, with the phenylalanine enzyme being more active than the parent towards the range of alcs.
Enzymes with the double changes at 48 and 93 showed increased activity towards alcs. The enzymes with changes at the 2 positions would metabolize both stereoisomers of 2-octanol whereas the parent ADH would attack cyclohexanol or arom. The results are in general agreement with the prediction that reducing the size of amino acids in the substrate pocket would enhance the ability to oxidize alcs.
Replacing Trp54 by Leu broadens substrate specificity Protein Eng. Replacing Trp54 by Leu broadens substrate specificity. Oxford University Press. Here, this residue was altered to Leu by site-directed mutagenesis W54L mutant. The alteration yielded an enzyme that served as an effective catalyst for both longer straight-chain primary alcs.
In The Enzymes , 3 rd ed. Evidence for horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase responsibility for exchange of the 1- pro-S hydrogen atom J. Transient kinetic data for partial reactions of alc.
Previous results showed that the enzyme-NAD complex isomerizes with a forward rate const. The enzyme-NAD-Alc. The transient oxidn. Rate consts. A small deuterium isotope effect for transient oxidn. The transient redn. The estd. The binding of NAD to wild-type horse liver alc.
Reactions with pyrazole and trifluoroethanol had biphasic proton release, whereas reaction with caprate showed proton release followed by proton uptake. Proton release s-1 was a common step that preceded the binding of all inhibitors. At all pH values studied, the rate consts. The results suggested that rate-limiting deprotonation of the enzyme-NAD complex is coupled to the conformational change and controls the formation of ternary complexes.
The results provided evidence that Glu, a highly conserved residue located 0. Structures with Glu coordinated to the Zn were almost as stable as structures with Glu at the crystal position and the barrier between the 2 configurations of Glu was so low that it could readily be bypassed at room temp.
There was a cavity behind the Zn that appeared to be tailored to allow such coordination of Glu to the Zn. It was suggested that Glu may facilitate the exchange of ligands in the substrate site by coordinating to the Zn when the old ligand dissocs.
The mechanism of H transfer catalyzed by horse liver alc. Product inhibition studies with the modified and native enzymes are consistent with an ordered mechanism. Primary 2H isotope effects obtained for oxidn. Isotope effects were not obsd. The pH effects for both enzymes can be explained by a coherent model that is consistent with the structure of the enzyme as detd.
This model postulates that a H2O or OH- mol. The binding of 2 inhibitor mols. X-ray data for the I-III complex were collected to 0. In both cases, only 1 peak was found in the difference electron-d. The peak corresponding to II overlaps the site of the d. No addnl. Thus, it is concluded that both of these inhibitors bind to the catalytic Zn and that upon binding they displace the H2O that is firmly bound to this Zn in apo-III.
No structural changes can be seen in the remaining part of the mol. Pauly, Thomas A. Cell Press. Sorbitol dehydrogenase I and aldose reductase form the polyol pathway that interconverts glucose and fructose.
Redox changes from overprodn. Here, the authors purified and detd. I was a tetramer of identical, catalytically active subunits. The inhibitor formed hydrophobic interactions with NADH and likely sterically occluded substrate binding.
The structure of the inhibitor complex provides a framework for developing more potent inhibitors of human I. Meijers, Rob; Morris, Richard J. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Furthermore, a pronounced distortion of the pyridine ring of NADH was obsd. A series of quantum chem.
These observations provide fundamental insight into the enzymic activation of NADH for hydride transfer. The use of substrate analogs as inhibitors provides a way to understand and manipulate enzyme function. Both structures present a dynamic state of inhibition. In the DMSO complex structure, the inhibitor is caught in transition on its way to the active site using a flash-freezing protocol and a cadmium-substituted enzyme. One inhibitor mol.
A hydroxide ion bound to the active site metal lies close to the pyridine ring of NADH, which is puckered in a twisted boat conformation.
The cadmium ion is coordinated by both the hydroxide ion and the inhibitor mol. The structure of the isobutyramide complex reveals the partial formation of an adduct between the isobutyramide inhibitor and NADH. It provides evidence of the contribution of a shift from the keto to the enol tautomer during aldehyde redn.
The different positions of the inhibitors further refine the knowledge of the dynamics of the enzyme mechanism and explain how the crowded active site can facilitate the presence of a substrate and a metal-bound hydroxide ion. Glu of the zinc-dependent Thermoanaerobacter brockii alc. Unlike most other ADHs, the crystal structures of TbADH and its analogs, ADH from Clostridium beijerinckii CbADH , exhibit a unique zinc coordination environment in which this conserved residue is directly coordinated to the catalytic zinc ion in the native form of the enzymes.
Steady-state kinetic measurements show that the catalytic efficiency of these mutants is only four- and eightfold, resp.
We applied X-ray absorption fine-structure EXAFS and near-UV CD to characterize the local environment around the catalytic zinc ion in the variant enzymes in their native, cofactor-bound, and inhibited forms. We show that the catalytic zinc site in the studied complexes of the variant enzymes exhibits minor changes relative to the analogous complexes of wild-type TbADH.
These moderate changes in the kinetic parameters and in the zinc ion environment imply that the Glu in TbADH does not remain bound to the catalytic zinc ion during catalysis. Furthermore, our results suggest that a water mol. Substituent and isotope effects in the yeast alcohol dehydrogenase reaction J.
Substituent and isotope effects in the yeast alcohol dehydrogenase reaction. Yeast alc. By steady state kinetic anal. Hammett plots of log kH and log kD vs. The difference between the kinetically detd. Consistent with this hypothesis, the assocn. A study of the enzyme-catalyzed oxidation of aromatic alcohols Biochemistry 15 , — [ ACS Full Text ], Google Scholar There is no corresponding record for this reference.
Theory is also presented for using the effects of other reactants on the apparent isotope effects detd. With liver alc. With yeast alc. Isotope-dependent step not pH dependent. Liver alcohol dehydrogenase with benzyl alcohol and yeast aldehyde dehydrogenase with benzaldehyde Biochemistry 23 , — [ ACS Full Text ], [ CAS ], Google Scholar Variation of transition-state structure as a function of the nucleotide in reactions catalyzed by dehydrogenases.
Liver alcohol dehydrogenase with benzyl alcohol and yeast aldehyde dehydrogenase with benzaldehyde. Primary intrinsic deuterium and 13C isotope effects were detd. These values were also detd. As the redox potential of the nucleotide changes from On the basis of the relatively large 13C isotope effects, it is concluded that C atom motion is involved in the hydride transfer steps of dehydrogenase reactions. Previous studies showed that this reaction is nearly or fully rate-limited by the H-transfer step.
Significant deviations from this relation were obsd. Such deviations were previously predicted to result from a reaction coordinate contg. Macmillan Magazines. Hydrogen tunnelling has increasingly been found to contribute to enzyme reactions at room temp. Tunnelling is the phenomenon by which a particle transfers through a reaction barrier as a result of its wave-like property. In reactions involving small mols. We have now investigated whether hydrogen tunnelling occurs at elevated temps.
Using a thermophilic alc. Contrary to predictions for tunnelling through a rigid barrier, the tunnelling with the thermophilic ADH decreases at and below room temp. These findings provide exptl. Nagel, Zachary D. A growing body of data suggests that protein motion plays an important role in enzyme catalysis.
Most of the obsd. Primary kinetic isotope effects KIEs are modestly increased for all mutants. The aggregate results are interpreted in the context of a full tunneling model of enzymic hydride transfer that incorporates both protein conformational sampling preorganization and active site optimization of tunneling reorganization. The reduced temp. Annual Reviews. The relationship between protein dynamics and function is a subject of considerable contemporary interest.
Although protein motions are frequently obsd. Here, we show how the quantum mech. A possible extension of this view to Me transfer and other catalyzed reactions is also presented. Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. The extent of denaturation was pH-dependent with maximal stability near the pI of the protein 5.
While not a surprising finding, it appears that this phenomenon has not been documented before or at least not identified despite many investigations into the pressure stability of proteins. Consideration of changes in the net charge of proteins far from their pI values may explain other pressure effects as well.
Hydrostatic pressure causes a monophasic decrease in the 13C primary isotope effect expressed on the oxidn. The primary isotope effect was measured by the competitive method, using whole-mol. Moderate pressure increases capture by activating hydride transfer, the transition state of which must therefore have a smaller vol. The decrease in the 13C isotope effect with increasing pressure means that the transition state for hydride transfer from the heavy atom must have an even smaller vol.
A similar expt. Consistent with precedence in the chem. The fact that the decrease in activation vols. National Academy of Sciences. For several decades the hydride transfer catalyzed by alc.
Because the relevant equil. It does, however, enable the development of a comprehensive model for the "tunneling ready state" TRS of the reaction that fits into the general scheme of Marcus-like models of hydrogen tunneling. The TRS is the ensemble of states along the intricate reorganization coordinate, where H tunneling between the donor and acceptor occurs the crossing point in Marcus theory.
It is comparable to the effective transition state implied by ensemble-averaged variational transition state theory. Properties of the TRS are approximated as an av. The model is consistent with exptl. The new picture of the TRS for this reaction identifies the principal components of the collective reaction coordinate and the av.
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Yeast Adh1p seems to be a good model for the study of the stability of complex enzymes, because effects of the environment on the structure can easily be tested by measuring the inactivation of reduced and oxidized Adh1p. The amino acid sequences of Adh1p and Adh2p had only 22 differences out of residues, with no differences in the groups directly involved in catalysis Ganzhorn et al.
The presence of Adh3p in respiratory-deficient mutants proved that nuclear DNA encodes the synthesis of this mitochondrially bound enzyme Wiesenfeld et al.
All the active site, cofactor-binding and noncatalytic zinc-binding residues identified in S. The amino acid sequence and secondary structure s of the leader sequence, as well as the adjacent sequences in the mature amino terminus of Adh3p, all contribute information for normal mitochondrial binding, importing and processing Mooney et al.
ADH4 is the most distal marker on the left arm of chromosome VII and both restriction and genetic analysis of the chromosome copy of ADH4 indicated that it was situated near a telomere Walton et al.
Analysis of the sequence of the hypothetical Adh4p protein showed that it did not contain structurally or functionally important amino acid residues that were conserved between yeast Adh1p and horse liver ADH.
The hypothetical ADH4 gene product did, however, show a strong homology to the iron-activated ADH from the bacterium Zymomonas mobilis.
The presence of a TATAA sequence upstream of the transcription start and the moderate codon bias suggested that it may be a functional yeast gene. Its location near the end of chromosome VII is interesting in view of the fact that many of the genes located at the ends of chromosomes in S.
Unlike Adh1p, Adh2p and Adh3p, which are thought to function as tetramers Leskovac et al. No information is currently available regarding characterization of the putative ADH5 gene product. The ADH6 Gonzalez et al. It is also the first cinammyl ADH and member of the MDR superfamily whose three-dimensional crystal structure has been determined Valencia et al. The heterodimeric enzyme Adh6p consists of two 40 kDa subunits: one in the apo conformation and the second in the holo conformation Valencia et al.
Adh6p exhibits conservation of the zinc-signature, as well as amino acid sequences in the substrate and coenzyme-binding domains characteristic of the zinc-containing MDR enzymes Gonzalez et al. The phylogenetic tree constructed from the MDRs identified in the genomes of S. The three-dimensional structure of the active site of the S. Adh1p has a methionine residue at position numbered as in the horse liver enzyme , whereas isozymes Adh2p and Adh3p have leucine.
Apart from these differences, the active sites of the S. It has been proposed that the shape or the accessibility of the catalytic pocket appears to be different in the yeast and horse liver enzymes and that it is possible to alter the specificity of the enzyme without sacrificing catalytic power Green et al.
Such approaches are limited by the lack of data on the tertiary and quaternary structure of tetrameric S. Crystallization of Adh1p has been reported repeatedly, but the crystals are seemingly not very useful in X-ray diffraction studies Ciriacy et al. The size and shape of the Adh6p active site appears to be adapted to the bulky and hydrophobic substrates of cinammyl ADHs.
The crystal structure of this enzyme showed that its specificity towards NADP H is achieved mainly by tripod-like interactions of the cofactor terminal phosphate group with certain side chains Valencia et al. Karlovic also demonstrated that binding of the coenzymes was linear over a wide temperature range, both at the level of binary and ternary complexes, and thermodynamic parameters showed no close similarity between heat and entropy changes associated with NAD and NADH binding. Zinc atoms are essential for maintaining the quaternary structure of the enzyme and both zinc and the coenzyme are bound at, or near to, each of the four reactive cysteines Harris et al.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Adh1p, Adh2p and Adh3p contain one catalytic zinc atom and a second zinc atom, which plays a prominent conformational role, probably through stabilization of the tertiary structure. The second zinc is located at the periphery of the molecule and the external localization of this structural zinc affects local conformations of the enzyme Magonet et al.
The important role of the zinc atom in alcohol oxidation is to stabilize the alcoholate ion for the hydride transfer step in the reverse direction. Zinc functions as an electron attractor, which gives rise to an increased electrophilic character of the aldehyde, consequently facilitating the transfer of a hydride ion to the aldehyde.
Thus, the proposed mechanism is essentially electrophilic catalysis mediated by the active site zinc atom Leskovac et al. The first biochemical data on Adh1p and Adh2p showed that the kinetic properties of both enzymes favoured alcohol production. Under the conditions of a high ethanol concentration and the efficient removal of acetaldehyde, both enzymes could function in the oxidation of ethanol Heick et al.
The substrate specificity of Adh1p is restricted to primary unbranched aliphatic alcohols and any branching decreased the activity and efficiency of the enzyme Leskovac et al. It was also reported that overexpressed Adh1p reduced formaldehyde FA to methanol in vivo Grey et al. These findings concur with its role as a major ethanol oxidizer.
For all alcohols, normalized reaction rates with Adh2p were about threefold faster than with Adh1p Leskovac et al. Some contradiction is found in the literature regarding the kinetic characteristics of Adh1p and Adh2p. The mitochondrial enzyme Adh3p Bakker et al. The methionine Adh1p or leucine Adh2p and Adh3p at position by itself had no interaction with ethanol or propanol Ganzhorn et al.
No data on the kinetic characteristics of Adh5p are presently available. Adh6p accepts a wide range of compounds as substrates, including linear and branched-chain primary alcohols and aldehydes, substituted cinnamyl alcohols and aldehydes as well as substituted benzaldehydes and their corresponding alcohols.
It is able to produce 2,3-butanediol from acetoin during fermentation Gonzalez et al. In general, the substrate specificity of Adh7p is quite similar to that of Adh6p Larroy, a. It showed the same activity towards linear and branched-chain alcohols, but much higher catalytic efficiencies towards the oxidation of cinnamyl alcohols and aliphatic alcohols Larroy, b.
The earliest study of regulation of the ADH genes was documented in the mids and provided the first defining proof of a controlling site involved in carbon catabolite repression in a eukaryote Ciriacy, b , The first gene associated with this function was ADR1 , a positive regulatory gene specifically activating the expression of the structural gene ADH2 under derepressed conditions Ciriacy et al.
ADR1 encodes the trans acting protein Adr1p containing two zinc fingers and an adjacent region on the amino-terminus side, which together are essential for DNA binding Blumberg et al.
Two unusual features upstream of the ADH2 promoter, a bp perfect dyad sequence and a dA 20 tract, were identified Russell, a. The ADH2 promoter may normally be in an inactive conformation in the yeast chromosome and derepression requires positive activation by Adr1p that is mediated through the bp perfect dyad UAS1 Beier et al. The Adr1p monomers are able to form one of two complexes: complex I corresponds to the binding of one molecule to the cis acting element UAS1 and complex II corresponds to the binding of two molecules to UAS1 Thukral et al.
Other interpretations, such as an indirect effect or a direct protein—protein interaction, are also possible but seem less likely Donoviel et al. Synthesis of Adr1p is 10—fold greater during growth on ethanol than during growth on glucose.
This derepression of ADR1 protein translation was found to occur within 40—60 min of glucose depletion. Glucose, therefore, represses ADH2 expression by considerably decreasing the rate of Adr1p synthesis. Other positive factors influencing ADH2 expression were also proposed, because excess Adr1p could not overcome a three- to fourfold inhibition in ADH2 transcription caused by multiple promoters on a multicopy vector Irani et al.
Genetic and biochemical analysis showed that expression of the Adh2p structural gene was under the control of at least 24 other unlinked genetic elements or proteins, most of which influence ADH2 expression mainly in a direct fashion Table 1. Several of the genes appear likely to do so through control of Adr1p, whether by mRNA translation, phosphorylation or protein interaction.
Elements other than Adr1 involved in the regulation of the ADH2 structural gene. Yeasts have to respond very rapidly to environmental changes. The ADH system serves as an ideal model to detect localized differences in chromatin structure, which can reflect changes in transcriptional activity.
Nucleosome mapping data show that glucose exerts its inhibitory effect by keeping the relevant promoter sequences TATA box and RIS in a nucleosomal configuration, thus precluding their engagement with the transcription machinery Verdone et al. Chromatin remodelling that occurs at the S. The existence of two steps in the process of chromatin remodelling suggests that at least two functions can be attributed to Adr1p.
First, the protein reconfigures nucleosomes in the immediate vicinity of its binding site, allowing the basal promoter elements to assume the most appropriate structure for the subsequent activation.
Second, the protein recruits the transcription machinery through its activation domain, allowing mRNA accumulation Di Mauro et al. Three possible states of the ADH2 promoter have been proposed: structurally and functionally inactive, structurally derepressed but functionally inactive and fully derepressed and functionally active.
The three possible states of the promoter, due to the absence or the presence of different Adr1p portions, can be considered to be an ordered sequence of events occurring at the ADH2 locus during derepression Di Mauro et al.
Verdone analysed the in vivo chromatin structure and the kinetics of transcriptional activation of the S. By genetically altering the steady-state pattern of histone acetylation at the repressed ADH2 promoter, the structure of the nucleosome containing the TATA box is destabilized, the promoter becomes accessible to Adr1p and, when the cells are shifted to derepressing conditions, the kinetics of mRNA accumulation is faster.
Xella later established the potential requirement for the chromatin remodelling factors Isw1p, Isw2p and Chd1p in the regulation of the ADH2 gene. They concluded that these factors contributed to the kinetics of activation of ADH2 in response to glucose depletion and were crucial in establishing the correct chromatin structure across the ADH2 -coding region, but seemed largely dispensable for nucleosome organization at the promoter. However, this seems to be true only for cells in the exponential growth phase, because the efficiency of the promoter is virtually indistinguishable with or without the UAS RPG during growth on ethanol.
The promoter region bp upstream of the ADH1 promoter features the presence of an Adr1p-binding site. It is, therefore, tempting to speculate that the downregulation of the long ADH1 promoter is indeed due to activation of the upstream promoter by Adr1p.
Thus, it is possible that the presence of ethanol in the culture broth rather than the absence of glucose decreased the activity of the long ADH1 promoter in glucose-grown cells Ruohonen et al. Bird demonstrated that during zinc starvation, Zap1p was required for the repression of ADH1 expression.
The complex regulation of ADH2 has made it an attractive model system for the genetic dissection of its transcriptional control, while the regulation of the remainder of the ADHs has not received as much attention. Scant data are available regarding the up- or downregulation of these genes and no evidence exists regarding genetic elements associated with this action.
Similar to the behaviour of enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle Heick et al. Repression of ADH3 through expression of an intergenic transcript under conditions of zinc starvation will likely occur by a mechanism similar to that of ADH1 , a mechanism that may act to conserve zinc during a limitation of this nutrient Bird et al.
ADH4 expression is upregulated by lithium, a compound that is toxic to yeast cells grown on galactose, but is downregulated by dimethyl sulphoxide DMSO Bro et al. Under conditions where Adh1p is nonfunctional, spontaneous chromosomal amplification of ADH4 was able to rescue the mutant phenotype Dorsey et al. ADH4 was also stringently regulated by zinc without an observable phenotype Yuan et al.
Adh1p can also accomplish this task, though presumably less efficiently. In the case of these two isozymes the possibility of inter-substitution seems to exist; for instance, cells lacking Adh2p activity can grow on ethanol as a carbon source under aerobic conditions Wills et al.
Their results supported the hypothesis that Adh3p forms part of the ethanol—acetaldehyde shuttle that is necessary for the reoxidation of mitochondrial NADH under anaerobic conditions.
Genetic and physiological analysis showed that disruption of ADH4 did not influence the viability of the yeast cell, nor was the enzyme responsible for the decrease in ethanol production in adh1 — adh4 quadruple deletion mutants Drewke et al. Yuan hypothesized that the induction of ADH4 expression under low-zinc conditions suggested that under these conditions the protein functioned as a back-up for Adh1p.
Bird later also demonstrated the same regulation pattern during zinc starvation and suggested two possible models for induction: as Adh4p binds less zinc per subunit than Adh1p, the Adh4p enzyme could be a more efficient ADH during zinc limitation or Adh4p might bind iron when zinc levels are limiting. Drewke found that a deletion mutant strain lacking adh1 to adh4 was still able to produce ethanol when grown on glucose as a carbon source. It is, therefore, reasonable to believe that in this case Adh5p might have been the enzyme capable of producing ethanol from acetaldehyde.
A search was undertaken to discover the genes and enzymes used by S. As long as the yeast had one functional enzyme out of Adh1p—Adh5p or Sfa1p, it was viable and any one of these six enzymes was sufficient for the final stage of amino acid catabolism, namely the conversion of an aldehyde to a long chain or a complex alcohol Dickinson et al. The specificity of the substrate and cofactor strongly supports the physiological involvement of Adh6p in aldehyde reduction rather than in alcohol oxidation and under oxidative conditions allows the yeast to use 2,3-butanediol as a carbon and energy source Larroy, a.
The potential role of Adh6p in S. It may afford the yeast the capacity to live in ligninolytic environments where products derived from lignin biodegradation may be available. Another potential function may include the biosynthesis of fusel alcohols Larroy, a and most certainly NADP H homeostasis Larroy et al. It is also plausible that manipulation of the levels of Adh6p and Adh7p could be used by the fermentation industry to alter the organoleptic properties of fermented beverages Larroy, b.
Even though the ADHs of S. The possibility of functional substitution among the different enzymes remains an interesting concept. Further data on this would contribute to assessing the in vivo roles of the enzymes. These investigations should be conducted not only under standard growth conditions or conditions of carbon repression, but also under conditions of other nutrient limitations such as a zinc limitation.
Biochemical analysis of Adh5p has not yet received much attention. Information on Adh5p could provide an insight regarding the function of this enzyme in, for instance, amino acid metabolism. It is also appealing to consider the prospect of chimeric enzymes with improved or dual functions.
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Figure 5: Mechanism of alcohol dehydrogenase. Note that the Zinc atom is coordinated in the active site by Cys, Cys and His, however, these residues were left out of the mechanism to emphasize the active residues. Ser and His function similarly to a catalytic dyad, acting as a charge-relay network to help deprotonate the ethanol and activate it to be oxidized to the aldehyde.
Before ethanol enters, a water molecule is initially positioned in the active site, but dissociates when the ethanol enters. At the end of the mechanism, water again enters the active site when the oxidized substrate—acetaldehyde—leaves 6. Figure 6: The active site of ADH The zinc atom purple coordinates with an ethanol molecule as described above, with His and Ser shown in blue and Cys, Cys, and His shown in red 4.
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