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The present investigation shows that all-trans retinol (Vitamin A alcohol), an alcohol of great physiological importance, is efficiently oxidized to all-trans retinaldehyde by the enzyme horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase. We observe a Km retinol value of 145μM and a turnover number of 0.45s−1 for the oxidation of all-trans retinol in the presence of Triton X-100, a surfactant used as a solubilizer. Over the concentration range of surfactant used (up to 0.1% Triton X-100) our studies on the oxidation of ethanol and all-trans retinol show that turnover numbers for both reactions remain constant as does the value for Km ethanol. On increasing the concentration of Triton X-100 from 0.025% to 0.10%, however, the Km retinol value increases by a factor of two. This behavior for retinol oxidation can be attributed to the partitioning of retinol between enzyme and surfactant. Pyrazole, a known inhibitor of alcohol oxidation by horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase, is a competitive inhibitor of both all-trans retinol and ethanol, with observed Ki values of 3.3×10−7 M and 3.9×10−7 M, respectively. We also find that ethanol inhibits all-trans retinol oxidation in a complex fashion, an observation which may have important consequences in view of the physiological role of retinol and its oxidation products. Our present studies indicate that all-trans retinol binds in the same region of the enzyme as does ethanol and is oxidized with an efficiency approaching that of ethanol itself.
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Pocker, Y., Raymond, K.W. (1980). Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Oxidation of Vitamin a Alcohol to Vitamin a Aldehyde by Horse Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase. The Inhibition by Ethanol and Pyrazole. In: Thurman, R.G. (eds) Alcohol and Aldehyde Metabolizing Systems-IV. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1419-7_15
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