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There are three types of NAD(P) + -dependent alcohol dehydrogenase: "medium-chain" zinc-containing enzymes, "short-chain" zinc-lacking enzymes and iron-activated enzymes. Although the medium-chain family and the short-chain family have been characterized in human, the iron-activated alcohol dehydrogenase family seems to exist only in microbial organisms. We have now cloned and characterized an iron-activated alcohol dehydrogenase gene, Fe-containing alcohol dehydrogenase 1 (ADHFe1) in human. The cDNA was isolated from the human fetal brain cDNA library. It contains a long open reading frame, which is not homologous with the other alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes characterized in human. The hypothetical alcohol dehydrogenase does, however, show strong homology to the iron-activated alcohol dehydrogenases from microbial organisms. Northern blotting analysis only detected …