| Standard Name | FDH1 |
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| Systematic Name | YOR388C |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | NAD(+)-dependent formate dehydrogenase, may protect cells from exogenous formate (1 and see Summary Paragraph) |
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| 35 total interaction(s) for 35 unique genes/features. | |
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| Last Update | Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31 | ||||||||||||
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| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000005915 |
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About glutathione-dependent formaldehyde oxidation
Formaldehyde is formed by oxidative demethylation reactions in many plants and methylotrophic organisms, but Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a nonmethylotrophic yeast and cannot metabolize methanol to formaldehyde. However, S. cerevisiae is exposed to exogenous formaldehyde from plant material or in polluted air and water.
Concentrations of formaldehyde of 1mM or higher are cytostatic or cytotoxic to haploid wild-type cells. Any free formaldehyde in vivo spontaneously reacts with glutathione to form S-hydroxymethylglutathione (2, 3, 4). The level of enzymes involved in the degradation of formaldehyde, such as Sfa1p and Yjl068p, determine the level of formaldehyde toxicity, and cells overproducing Sfa1p are resistant to formaldehyde and null mutants in either sfa1 or yjl068c are hypersensitive to formaldehyde. Sfa1p is induced in response to chemicals such as formaldehyde (FA), ethanol and methyl methanesulphonate, and Yjl068p is also induced in response to chemical stresses (5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9).
Formate dehydrogenase is encoded by FDH1/YOR388C and FDH2. In some strain backgrounds of S. cerevisiae, FDH2 is encoded by a continuous open reading frame comprised of YPL275W and YPL276W. However, in the systematic sequence of S288C, FDH2 is represented by these two separate open reading frames due to an in frame stop codon (1).
| 1) | Overkamp KM, et al. (2002) Functional analysis of structural genes for NAD(+)-dependent formate dehydrogenase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 19(6):509-20 |
| 2) | Achkor H, et al. (2003) Enhanced formaldehyde detoxification by overexpression of glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase from Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 132(4):2248-55 |
| 3) | Grey M, et al. (1996) Overexpression of ADH1 confers hyper-resistance to formaldehyde in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 29(5):437-40 |
| 4) | Degrassi G, et al. (1999) Purification and properties of an esterase from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and identification of the encoding gene. Appl Environ Microbiol 65(8):3470-2 |
| 5) | Wehner E and Brendel M (1993) Formaldehyde lacks genotoxicity in formaldehyde-hyperresistant strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutat Res 289(1):91-6 |
| 6) | Wehner EP, et al. (1993) Molecular structure and genetic regulation of SFA, a gene responsible for resistance to formaldehyde in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and characterization of its protein product. Mol Gen Genet 237(3):351-8 |
| 7) | Gompel-Klein P, et al. (1989) Molecular characterization of the two genes SNQ and SFA that confer hyperresistance to 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide and formaldehyde in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 16(2):65-74 |
| 8) | Jelinsky SA and Samson LD (1999) Global response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an alkylating agent. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96(4):1486-91 |
| 9) | Schaus SE, et al. (2001) Gene transcription analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae exposed to neocarzinostatin protein-chromophore complex reveals evidence of DNA damage, a potential mechanism of resistance, and consequences of prolonged exposure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98(20):11075-80 |






