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Acetaldehyde metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster

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A quantitative study on in vitro acetaldehyde degradation in homogenates fromDrosophila melanogaster files shows that aldehyde oxidase plays the major part in acetaldehyde detoxification. However, in a strain, celed ‘AO null’, because itsAldox locus produces no aldehyde-oxidase, acetaldehyde is also degradated by a still unknown mechanism. Alcoholdehydrogenase which is responsible for the dehydrogenation of ethanol in acetaldehyde, appears to catalyze the reversed reactions as wel, regenerating ethanol fromacetaldehyde.

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  1. Unité de Génétique et Physiologie Cellulaire, Facultés N. D. de la Paix, 61, rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium

    M. C. Lietaert, M. Libion-Mannaert & A. Elens

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This work was supported in part by a grant from the FNRS of Belgium.

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Lietaert, M.C., Libion-Mannaert, M. & Elens, A. Acetaldehyde metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster. Experientia 37, 689–690 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01967924

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