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Title: No co-expression of LDH-C in amazon cichlids
Authors: Farias, Izeni P.
Paula-Silva, Maria Nazaré N.
Almeida-Val, Vera Maria Fonseca
Keywords: Alcohol Dehydrogenase
Enzyme Inhibitor
Isoenzyme
Lactate Dehydrogenase
Malate Dehydrogenase
Animals Tissue
Enzyme Activity
Eye
Fish
Gel Electrophoresis
Liver
Nonhuman
Priority Journal
Protein Expression
Animalsia
Cichlidae
Gadiformes
Nassa
Pisces
Issue Date: 1997
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 117, Número 2, Pags. 315-319
Abstract: As commonly found among other advanced telcosts, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, EC. 1.1.1.27) from cichlid fish exhibits the eye-specific LDH-C4 isozyme. In the last few yeats, some authors have described the co-expression of a distinct liver-specific form in addition to the eye-specific LDH isozymes in cichlid fish. Because liver-specific isozymes have been described before in Gadiformes as the product of the same LDH-C*locus, such. co- expression of these isozymes was explained as the result of a fourth locus for LDH. Our studies on Amazon cichlid fishes revealed that the specific isozyme present in liver is the result of activity of another enzyme: alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH, EC. 1.I.1.1.). Several tests with ADH specific staining and the use of ADH inhibitors confirmed that the isozyme described as LDH in liver of Acaron/a nassa is actually the result of ADH activity. It is common during the staining procedure for LDH and other dehydrogenases such as malate dehydrogenase (EC. 1.1.1.37) for the ADH isozyme to also appear. Considering these results, we suggest that LDH occurs as the product of three loci (LDH- A* LDH-B* and LDH-C*) in these fish.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00324-0
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