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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-5-27
pubmed:abstractText
Mammalian ALDH3 genes (ALDH3A1, ALDH3A2, ALDH3B1 and ALDH3B2) encode enzymes of peroxidic and fatty aldehyde metabolism. ALDH3A1 also plays a major role in anterior eye tissue UV-filtration. BLAT and BLAST analyses were undertaken of several vertebrate genomes using rat, chicken and zebrafish ALDH3-like amino acid sequences. Predicted vertebrate ALDH3 sequences and structures were highly conserved, including residues involved in catalysis, coenzyme binding and enzyme structure as reported by Liu et al. [27] for rat ALDH3A1. Phylogeny studies of human, rat, opossum, platypus, chicken, xenopus and zebrafish ALDH3-like sequences supported three hypotheses: (1) the mammalian ALDH3A1 gene was generated by a tandem duplication event of an ancestral vertebrate ALDH3A2 gene; (2) multiple mammalian and chicken ALDH3B-like genes were generated by tandem duplication events within genomes of related species; and (3) vertebrate ALDH3A and ALDH3B genes were generated prior to the appearance of bony fish more than 500 million years ago.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1872-7786
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
191
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
113-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Comparative studies of vertebrate aldehyde dehydrogenase 3: sequences, structures, phylogeny and evolution. Evidence for a mammalian origin for the ALDH3A1 gene.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. r.holmes@griffith.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study