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. 1986 May 12;14(9):3911–3926. doi: 10.1093/nar/14.9.3911

Multiple mRNAs for human alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH): developmental and tissue specific differences.

V Bilanchone, G Duester, Y Edwards, M Smith
PMCID: PMC339824  PMID: 2940513

Abstract

Human class I alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) genes show developmental and tissue specific differences in expression at the polypeptide level. In these studies ADH expression was investigated at the RNA level. Northern blot analysis of total and poly (A) RNA from adult liver using pADH12 probe demonstrated multiple RNA size classes of 2.6, 2.2, 1.9 and 1.6kb. In contrast, fetal liver, and fetal intestine contained only 2.6 and 1.6kb mRNA while fetal lung showed only 2.6kb mRNA. All of these tissues showed a relative reduction in the amount of ADH mRNA present when compared to adult liver. Immunoprecipitation of in vitro translation products of adult liver RNA by polyclonal ADH antibody revealed a single polypeptide of 40,000 daltons. This result points out the homogeneity of size of class I ADH polypeptides despite mRNA size diversity. Variation in length of the 3' untranslated region probably contributes to the multiple size classes of ADH mRNA observed.

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