SOR1/YJR159W Summary 
SOR1 BASIC INFORMATION
| Standard Name | SOR1 1 (see Nomenclature conflict Note) |
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| Systematic Name | YJR159W |
| Alias | SDH1 2 |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | Sorbitol dehydrogenase; expression is induced in the presence of sorbitol or xylose (2, 3 and see Summary Paragraph) 
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| GO Annotations | All SOR1 GO evidence and references |
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| View Computational GO annotations for SOR1 | |
| Molecular Function | |
| Manually curated | |
| Biological Process | |
| Manually curated | |
| Cellular Component | |
| Manually curated |
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| Mutant Phenotype | All SOR1 Phenotype details and references |
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| Classical genetics | |
| null | |
| Large-scale survey | |
| overexpression |
| Interactions | SOR1 All interactions details and references |
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| View additional details at BioGRID | |
| 9 total interaction(s) for 8 unique genes/features. | |
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| Post-translational Modifications | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000003920 |
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SOR1 RESOURCES
| SGD ORF map | GBrowse |
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Expression Summary
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION for SOR1
NOMENCLATURE CONFLICT NOTE
| Name | Relevance | Description |
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| SDH1 | Nomenclature conflict | Both SDH1/YKL148C (succinate dehydrogenase) and SOR1/YJR159W (L-iditol 2-dehydrogenase) have been referred to as SDH1. |
SUMMARY PARAGRAPH for SOR1
About SOR1 and SOR2
SOR1 encodes a NAD-dependent sorbitol dehydrogenase that is part of the polyol dehydrogenase branch of the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (MDR) superfamily of enzymes. It is not expressed under most laboratory conditions but is induced when cells are grown in media containing sorbitol, a hexose carbohydrate similar to fructose (2). It is also induced when cells are grown on xylose, a pentose sugar found in lignocellulose, though S. cerevisiae cannot effectively utilize xylose as a carbon source (3). In vitro, Sor1p has been demonstrated to have activity on sorbitol and xylitol, but not on mannitol or the primary alcohol ethanol (2).
SOR2 encodes an enzyme almost identical to SOR1 (4). It has also been predicted to be involved in metabolism of hexoses by computational analysis of protein interaction networks (5).
About the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (MDR) family
Medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductases (MDRs), sometimes referred to as long-chain dehydrogenases (6), constitute an ancient and widespread enzyme superfamily with members found in Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryota (7, 8). Many MDR members are basic metabolic enzymes acting on alcohols or aldehydes, and thus these enzymes may have roles in detoxifying alcohols and related compounds, protecting against environmental stresses such as osmotic shock, reduced or elevated temperatures, or oxidative stress (7). The family also includes the mammalian zeta-crystallin lens protein, which may protect the lens against oxidative damage and enzymes which produce lignocellulose in plants (7).
MDR enzymes typically have subunits of about 350 aa residues and are two-domain proteins, with a catalytic domain and a second domain for binding to the nicotinamide cofactor, either NAD(H) or NADP(H) (7, 8). They contain 0, 1, or 2 zinc atoms (9). When zinc is present, it is involved in catalysis at the active site.
Based on phylogenetic and sequence analysis, the members of the MDR superfamily can be further divided into more closely related subgroups (7, 8). In families which are widespread from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, some members appear conserved across all species, while others appear to be due to lineage specific duplications. Some subgroups are only found in certain taxa. S. cerevisiae contains fifteen (7) or twenty-one (8) members of the MDR superfamily, listed below. The difference in number is due to six sequences that were included as members of the quinone oxidoreductase family by Riveros-Rosas et al. (8) but not by Nordling et al. (7).
Zinc-containing enzyme groups:
- PDH; "polyol" dehydrogenase family - BDH1, BDH2, SOR1, SOR2, XYL2
- ADH; class III alcohol dehydrogenase family - SFA1
- Y-ADH; "yeast" alcohol dehydrogenase family - ADH1, ADH2, ADH3, ADH5
- CADH; cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase family - ADH6, ADH7
Non-zinc-containing enzyme groups:
- NRBP; nuclear receptor binding protein (8) or MRF; mitochondrial respiratory function (7) family - ETR1
- QOR; quinone oxidoreductase family - ZTA1 (7, 8), AST1, AST2, YCR102C, YLR460C, YMR152W, YNL134C (8)
- LTD; leukotriene B4 dehydrogenases - YML131W
- ER; enoyl reductases (8) or ACR; acyl-CoA reductase (7) family - no members in S. cerevisiae
Last updated: 2008-08-19
REFERENCES CITED ON THIS PAGE [View Complete Literature Guide for SOR1]
| 1) | McGonigal T, et al. (1998) Construction of a sorbitol-based vector for expression of heterologous proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Microbiol 64(2):793-4 |
| 2) | Sarthy AV, et al. (1994) Cloning and sequence determination of the gene encoding sorbitol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene 140(1):121-6 |
| 3) | Toivari MH, et al. (2004) Endogenous xylose pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Microbiol 70(6):3681-6 |
| 4) | Gonzalez E, et al. (2000) Characterization of a (2R,3R)-2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase as the Saccharomyces cerevisiae YAL060W gene product. Disruption and induction of the gene. J Biol Chem 275(46):35876-85 |
| 5) | Samanta MP and Liang S (2003) Predicting protein functions from redundancies in large-scale protein interaction networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100(22):12579-83 |
| 6) | Jornvall H, et al. (1981) Alcohol and polyol dehydrogenases are both divided into two protein types, and structural properties cross-relate the different enzyme activities within each type. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 78(7):4226-30 |
| 7) | Nordling E, et al. (2002) Medium-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (MDR). Family characterizations including genome comparisons and active site modeling. Eur J Biochem 269(17):4267-76 |
| 8) | Riveros-Rosas H, et al. (2003) Diversity, taxonomy and evolution of medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily. Eur J Biochem 270(16):3309-34 |
| 9) | Persson B, et al. (1999) Bioinformatics in studies of SDR and MDR enzymes. Adv Exp Med Biol 463:373-7 |
